Mark Zen wrote: > > > > From: Jack_Martin_at_jtif.webfld.navy.mil > > > > > > > > > Anybody know of a user-friendly, "pilot-proofed" web site for getting > > > the phases of the moon? > > > > > > Try http://gaul.csd.uwo.ca:8080/~mckaig/moonphases/index.html > > > > Jackie > unfortunately, none of the sites mentioned, have a way to get the moon > phase, say next november 11th, or you want to schedule full moon paddles > for the next year, and camping trips when there is no [or "new"] moon. > > kind of a bummer... the way i do it is through a program called "calendar > creator" ... i have a very old DOS version which does all that, although i > forgot when its calendar blows up... ;-) > > mark Gee, there's this thing call something like collander or calendar. Used to be seen in any good barber shop or garage. It had these pages that flipped with each month on a separate one and a nice picture too, usually a nude strategically holding a set of wrenches and wearing a shop apron, things like that. If you could tear your eyes away from the picture and look at the month, you would see these little filled in and empty circles and half spheres next to some of the dates, meaning full moon, new moon and half moons. Retrieving a future month's information was fairly easy, turn the calendar's screen by hands like you would a scroll button and voila it would appear with its appropriate moon phases, and the nude might be wearing a Santa Claus hat. This tradition is still preserved in source books like Eldridge Tide and Pilot Book, alas, minus the nudes :-). And it has additional critical information...what dates the moon is in perigee and apogee, which has about the same effect on tides and currents as do the moon phases. If you have the moon full or new and in perigee (closest to earth in its orbit) watch out!!! ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jun 01 1998 - 14:40:06 PDT
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