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Re: Terminal weather not-quite widget

On Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:33:45 -0400
Scott Murphy via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:

> It reminds me of a terminal app I used back in the 1980's called phoon 
> that showed the current phas of the moon in the terminal. It has been 
> archived here and has a sample texttohtml output on the page at: 
> https://www.acme.com/software/phoon/

Can't resist plugging Remind:  https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

It comes with a sample script called "astro":

$ ./astro 
Today is 2026-09-19, being the 262nd day of 2026.
Not including today, the year 2026 has 103 more days left.

Sunrise:               🌅 06:46 today and 06:46 tomorrow
Sunset:                🌇 19:06 today and 19:03 tomorrow

Moonrise:              15:49 in the South-East (131 degrees)
Moonset:               23:54 in the South-West (230 degrees)

Full moon:             🌕 2026-09-26 at 12:50 (in 7 days' time)
Last Quarter:          🌗 2026-10-03 at 09:26 (in 14 days' time)
New moon:              🌑 2026-10-10 at 11:50 (in 21 days' time)
First Quarter:         🌓 2026-10-18 at 12:13 (in 29 days' time)

Next Autumnal Equinox: 🍂 2026-09-22 at 20:06 (in 3 days' time)
Next Winter Solstice:  ❄️ 2026-12-21 at 15:51 (in 93 days' time)
Next Vernal Equinox:   🌼 2027-03-20 at 16:26 (in 182 days' time)
Next Summer Solstice:  😎 2027-06-21 at 10:11 (in 275 days' time)

Regards,

Dianne.


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