Moon Phase and Illumination Calculator

Moon Phase and Illumination: a planned Super Calculator tool. Covers date. Stub page: the tool, its formula and a worked example are not published yet.

Moon Phase and Illumination Calculator is a planned calculator in the science section of Super Calculator, covering sky events.

What this calculator will compute

Inputs: date, time zone and location.

Formula, recorded as scope and not yet verified against a primary source: Synodic age from a known new moon epoch, illumination = (1 minus cos phase angle) divided by 2.

Written for very high volume search across gardening, fishing and photography.

Status

This page is a stub. The calculator is not built, no figure on this page has been verified against the authority that sets it, and nothing here should be used to make a decision. The page exists so that the site structure is complete and so that articles can link this concept on first mention.

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