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  17 <h1>Module: phoon</h1>
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  19 phoon is essentially xphoon, rewritten in Perl with a few math
  20 tweaks/fixes and different base case data.  It gives a graphical
  21 display of the phase of the moon.<p>
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  23 <h2>Current platforms</h2>
  24 All
  25
  26 <h2>Instances</h2>
  27 multiple allowed
  28
  29 <h2>additional resources</h2>
  30 ipad<p>
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  32 ipad specifies an internal padding to add to the inside of all four
  33 module borders.  The padding is added inside any relief.<p>
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  36 <h2>Resource defaults</h2>
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  38 Resource defaults explicitly altered from the global defaults by this
  39 module:
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  41 <ul>
  42 <li>borderwidth: 1
  43 <li>ipad: 20
  44 <li>order: .2
  45 <li>relief: sunken
  46 <li>scalejustify: 0
  47 <li>scalelenadj: 60
  48 <li>scalerefresh: 2000
  49 <li>scalewidadj: 150
  50 </ul>
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  52 <h2>Possible enhancements</h2>
  53
  54 Oh boy, here we go...<p>
  55
  56 This is the kind of module one can take to a logical extreme... and I
  57 really hope someone does! In addition to wishing the prediction
  58 algorithm was more precise (the code I use is +/- 20 minutes for the
  59 next several centuries, which is better than xphoon managed.  Emacs's
  60 calender, however, is +/- a minute or so... and it *bugs* me), I'd
  61 like phoon to predict blue/harvest moons and eclipses.  The biggest
  62 single want, though, is to get the axial tilt and lighting right.  At
  63 the moment it just does the easy stuff like xphoon.  I realize that
  64 would require lon/lat, something difficult to autosense, but that's
  65 what X resources are for :-)<p>
  66
  67 It would be especially cool for a real astronomy nut to do it... I
  68 *know* I'm going to get something wrong if I haven't already.<p>
  69
  70 Also, while I'm at it... anyone want to write earth? :-)<p>
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