Silent-Age Software Apps

Lunacy is a Moon-Phase app which not only shows the moon's phase ina 3-D rendering, but also includes a Calendar, a Moon-Dates chartshowing the dates and times of significant phases over the courseof a year, and a Year-Chart showing the phases every day for ayear. Lunacy shows the current phase of the moon in it's Moon Viewscreen:     ♦ Current date and phase    ♦ Displays and accounts for Lunar Libration    ♦ Next New and Next Full moon dates andtimes     ♦ Distance to the moon (center tocenter)     ♦ Visible size of the moon scaleswith distanc     ♦ Fast-forward modehypnotically animates phase and libration through time    ♦ Automatically adjusts view of the moonwhen in the southern hemisphere (via GPS)     ♦Can zoom in or away from the moon     ♦ NEW:Can rotate the moon to any orientation     ♦NEW: Higher resolution lunar imagery from NASA's Clementineproject.     ♦ Alternate lower resolution lunarimagery (still Clementine)     ♦ AlternateLatitude/Longitude grid The Calendar screen is a scrollablecalendar showing the moon's phase for each day in a traditionalweek/month calendar format. The Year Chart screen shows the phasesof the moon for a whole year on-screen at once.    ♦ Works for any year from 2000 to 2200 andbeyond.        Select from:        ♦ Phase Icons        ♦ IlluminationPercentage Bars         ♦and a Heat Map representation Includes annual charts of Moon Datesscreen listing New/Full/1st Quarter/3rd Quarter dates and times.Includes a Live Wallpaper and Widget each showing the moon in it'scurrent up-to-date phase. NEW: Displayed dates and times can beeither UTC (the default) or in the local time zone. NEW: Pale BlueEaster Egg.

A Copernican-style Orrery showing the positions of the 8 planetsand their primary moons as well as our moon's phase. The Orrery isa model of the solar system as view from celestial north, andorientated such that solstices occur when the earth is due-north(top, winter solstice) or south (bottom, summer solstice) and theequinoxes are east (right, autumnal equinox) and west (left, vernalequinox). All orbits are assumed to be perfect circles. Theposition of the Earth and Moon are fairly accurate, as are theirorbits. The remaining planets positions are approximate, but closeenough considering the size of the typical phone or tablet screen.The starting positions of the moons other than that of the Earth isnot accurate. The orbital periods of all planets and moons isaccurate relative to the other planets and moons. This app shouldbe considered simply something fun to look at, but not anything tobe taken too seriously.