Re: [Evolution] webcal for time of full moon rise at a location

[Alex DePillis <alex depillis org>]

Thanks for your interest.  

I will leave to others how to specify location and date range.  

Here's some fodder:
I use Canton Becker's webcal for the day.  Then, to get the time at a location, I look up that day for a location at this URL:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/rs-one-year-us 
Enter location and year, and "compute table" and you get a fixed-width "table."   
Note that "daylight time" is observed March-November in most US locations.  As you can see at the bottom of the table, you have to add an hour if daylight savings time is in effect.  

Easier fodder is probably this: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/moonrise.html which adjusts for local time, including daylight savings time.

Alex D
Madison, Wisconsin

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Alex DePillis <alex depillis org> wrote:
>Has anyone run across a calendar for evolution that gives the time and
>day that the full moon rises, at a location?
>This is the only astronomical calendar that I know of:
>webcal://cantonbecker.com/astronomy-calendar/astrocal.ics
>Good stuff.  "Full moon" is strictly defined, i.e. "...a full moon
>occurs when the geocentric apparent (ecliptic) longitudes of the Sun
>and
>Moon differ by 180 degrees; the Moon is then in opposition with the
>Sun.[1]" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon)  
>Whereas I'm looking for the time of day the full moon rises in, for
>example, Chicago.  

No, I've never seen such a thing.  But it sounds fun and useful.  Maybe I'll put one together.

Just pass a lat/long as url parameter and get an icalendar file for the next 90 days or a date range specified in the url?
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Adam Tauno Williams