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get-the-moon

v2.1.0

Published

πŸŒ— gets the Moon

Readme

https://www.npmjs.com/package/get-the-moon

πŸŒ” Get The Moon!

(Example package for npm deployment)
And also, to get the current Moon phase in Javascript or the command line.

Install

npm i get-the-moon

or globaly (to use in the command line)

npm i get-the-moon -g

Usage

const moon = require("get-the-moon");
console.log(moon.getMoonEmoji()) // πŸŒ” (according to the Moon phase)

Methods

moon.getMoonPercent returns <Number> // floating point

console.log(Moon.getMoonPercent()) // 0.251490505183 (according to the Moon phase)

moon.getMoonAgeInDays returns <Number> // floating point

console.log(moon.getMoonAgeInDays()) // 7.4271304513887895 (according to the Moon phase)

moon.getMoonEmoji returns <String> // unicode emoji

console.log(moon.getMoonEmoji()) // πŸŒ” (according to the Moon phase)

getMoonAscii returns <String> // and consoles the Ascii moon phase

console.log(Moon.getMoonAscii([<Bool>])) // accepts an optional Boolean to inverse the Ascii background Characters (ASCII art according to the Moon phase)

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ASCII tools shoutouts πŸ’Ž

  • web: https://www.text-image.com/convert/ascii.html
  • npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/asciify-image
  • npm https://www.npmjs.com/package/image-to-ascii

Command Line Methods

$ moon [-inverse] (getMoonAscii) //return <String> and prints the Ascii Moon
$ getMoon [-inverse] (getMoonAscii) //return <String> and prints the Ascii Moon
$ getMoonAscii [-inverse] //return <String> and prints the Ascii Moon
$ getMoonEmoji //return <String> Moon emoji acording to moon phase 
$ getMoonPercent // returns <Number> floating point acording to moon phase
$ getMoonAgeInDays // returns <Number> floating point acording to moon phase

🌼 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!!

  • Issues with Feature requests, ideas ✨ and Bug reports 🐞 are welcome!
  • Or Fork & Pull request.

License

get-the-moon is distributed under The MIT License

❀️ Many thanks to

https://www.subsystems.us/uploads/9/8/9/4/98948044/moonphase.pdf http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~keturn/py-moon-phase/trunk/annotate/head:/moon.py https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/20973/what-should-i-consider-in-order-to-accurately-calculate-the-moon-phase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Meeus