Simple Round Moon Mod

[beteljuice]

For those who prefer The Moon to be round

The beteljuice has done a simple 'fix'

First of all you need this graphic in your [website.com]/[cumulus]/images directory

moon_mask2.gif

Then, in your *****T.htm you need to find:

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    <td rowspan=3><IMG src="images/moon.bmp" alt="Moon" width="64" height="64" hspace="10" align="left" border="0"></td>

... and REPLACE it with:

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    <td rowspan=3>
      <div style = "position: relative;">
         <img src = "images/moon.bmp" alt="" title="" style="position: relative;  left: 0;" />
         <img src = "images/moon_mask2.gif"  alt="Current Moon" title="Current Moon" style="position: absolute;  left: 0;" />
      </div>
    </td>

That's it !

Don't forget to save a copy of your *****T.htm files somewhere 'safe' - because everytime you do a Cumulus update, they will be overwritten

PS. If your page background is not white, use a graphics prog to change the colour of the mask

[beteljuice]

Take #2

It would seem the Moon isn't round, and the 'mask' a little small, so here is a slightly oversize (round) mask;

moon_mask2.gif

When It's the next Full Moon I'll try to produce a better mask !

[GlynH]

There is a great moon phase module here for use on your own website;

http://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phase ... ases.phtml

However it will take a better mind than mine to get it to replace the existing moon thingy without buggering up the layout of the existing table.

So how's about it Beteljuice...do you fancy a challenge so lazy/ignorant people like me can reap the benefits of other people's hard work?

i've given up after 2 hours of cutting/pasting trying to get it to appear in the right place without spoiling the existing layout of my pages...

Regards,
-=Glyn=-

[aadal]

There is a great moon phase module here for use on your own website;

http://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phase ... ases.phtml

However it will take a better mind than mine to get it to replace the existing moon thingy without buggering up the layout of the existing table.

So how's about it Beteljuice...do you fancy a challenge so lazy/ignorant people like me can reap the benefits of other people's hard work?

i've given up after 2 hours of cutting/pasting trying to get it to appear in the right place without spoiling the existing layout of my pages...

Regards,
-=Glyn=-

Yes there is
What about live mon?

[GlynH]

Yes there is
What about live mon?

Pass. WTF is live mon?

Regards,
-=Glyn=-

[aadal]

Yes there is
What about live mon?

Pass. WTF is live mon?

Regards,
-=Glyn=-

telescopic seing live

[beteljuice]

The beteljuice does not find that challenging.

This would be better:

It would seem no one knows about this site,

http://www.fourmilab.ch/

but now I suppose you want to know how to fill in the 'form' and get the the url.

Tough ! - I am not going to design your site for you

There are also more flexible possibilies using external elements to the Cumulus basics, here's the output from an experimental beteljuice Almanac, it puts Moon rise / set times in true chronological order, knows about 'now', and is set for my observer location:

Just before midnight:

Sunset was 17:41
Dusk ended: 18:16 - 11:48 hrs daylight

Dawn tomorrow: 06:26
Sunrise tomorrow: 07:00
Sunset tomorow: 17:43
Dusk ends tomorrow: 18:18 - 11:52 hrs daylight

Moon rose at 07:20 and set at 21:07.
Current altitude is -20° (Below horizon)
and azimuth 321° NW.
The disk is now 9% illuminated (Waxing).

Next full Moon on 11 March at 02:36.
Next new Moon on 26 March at 16:09

By the way the time is 23:54 and it's night (Dark)

At midnight:

Sunset yesterday 17:41
Dusk ended: 18:16 - 11:48 hrs daylight

Dawn starts: 06:26
Sunrise today: 07:00
Sunset today: 17:43
Dusk ends: 18:18 - 11:52 hrs daylight

Moon rises at 07:33 and sets at 22:29.
Current altitude is -20° (Below horizon)
and azimuth 322° NW.
The disk is now 9% illuminated (Waxing).

Next full Moon on 11 March at 02:36.
Next new Moon on 26 March at 16:09

By the way the time is 00:00 and it's night (Dark)

PS. the beteljuice would not recommend FrontPage for html / code work.

[GlynH]

Wassup Beteljuice...can't you sleep either?

Well I beg to differ but whatever that picture was does nothing for me I'm afraid...was it a microscope shot of some dust by any chance?

In the time it took you to compose your post you could have designed a Corporate website methinks...

I did stumble across the fourmilab website while I was searching for a way to automatically display the phase of the moon at night whilst displaying a picture of the sun during the day but I guess that was asking a but much...

I might just end up displaying a picture I took of Jupiter and two of her moons through my little telescope which was out in the cold in the back garden one night while I was hunched over a laptop in the warm in the kitchen...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/281 ... 5a49_o.jpg

I fully agree with you about FP2003 - cannot get my head round it at all...

Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-

[beteljuice]

... I was searching for a way to automatically display the phase of the moon at night whilst displaying a picture of the sun during the day but I guess that was asking a but much...

'Tis possible

https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=735

... but not really for a coding novice

Try learning some basics first, get clever and make mistakes later

[beteljuice]

Only just realised that the (Cumulus) Moon pic correctly adjusts itself for those of you South of The Equator (or at least at the site I looked at it did !)

So those users would have to 'flip' the mask with a suitable graphics prog or something like irfanview. Strictly speaking you should 'mirror' it as well, but I don't think it's going to be more than 1px out.

[MarkB]

While we are on about the moon - does anyone know why the image has to be a .bmp? (Is it possible to change it?)

It's only a minor point, but when I browse my website with my Symbian phone the moon.bmp is rendered as a broken image. If I convert it to a .png then it displays just fine in whatever browser.

[steve]

That's the only format the moon component allows (it's the only format any Delphi component allows, unless the component writer has added code specifically to save in another format).

For some reason, I converted the wind gauges to PNGs, but didn't bother with the moon. It's easy enough to do, but is it going to cause compatibility problems if I change it? I can change the standard pages (it's actually just index.htm now), and anyone who has written their own pages which use the image could easily change...

Steve

[hans]

i have replaced the original moon with another one
(you can see it on my site).

put this between the <body> tags:

<applet code="LunarPhases.class" height="160" width="400">
</applet>

then download and unzip these files in the same directory of the page

http://home.xmsnet.nl/hanmir/maanstand.zip

[Jonsey]

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I have edited the iCumulus add on that daj has done. http://www.worsley-weather.co.uk/iphone and have managed to link in the moon phases that culumus generates and wondered how I can replace the moon pic that it generates, as I have the complete cycle in images.