Moon Phases.

[Nigel Martin]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone have a spreadsheet or the formulas that calculate the moon phases for any given year in the UK.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Legacy 21301]

http://www.ameritech.net/users/paulcarlisle/MoonCalendar.html

http://imagiware.com/astro/moon.cgi

Lots of other sites readily available.

 

[SIXTH SENSE]

hi!
here's am approxiamtion of the moon phase
0..3 is new moon.
4..7 full moon.
try this. not fully tested.
but please give me feed back .ok

<font face=Courier New><SPAN style="color:#00007F">Function</SPAN> Moon_Phase(y, m, d) <SPAN style="color:#00007F">As</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Integer</SPAN>
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN> m < 3 <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Then</SPAN>
        y = y - 1
        m = m + 12
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN>
    m = m + m
    c = 365.25 * y
    e = 30.6 * m
    jd = c + e + d - 694039.09
    jd = jd / 29.53
    b = Int(jd)
    jd = jd - b
    b = Int(jd * 8 + 0.5)
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN> b = 8 <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Then</SPAN> b = 0
    Moon_Phase = b
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Function</SPAN></FONT>

 

[Iridium]

http://www.xylem.f2s.com/kepler/astrofnc.html

Not sure if your answer is there but there's a hell of a lot of UDF's for astronomical functions!