Gets moon visualizations courtesy of NASA/Ernie Wright
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moon
This is a Python package that gets an image of a given date's moon phase. It uses NumPy, OpenCV, and Ernie Wright's moon visualizations from the Dial-a-Moon project at Nasa's Scientific Visualization Studio.
At time of publishing, this package can access any of the moon visualizations from 2011-2021. The way it's set up now, it'll need an update before the end of 2021.
Installation
To install this package, just run
pip install moon
Usage
Currently, this package can get a NumPy.ndarray representing the lunar phase, as well as some json of the lunar stats from the Dial-a-Moon Nasa site. This array is usable as an image using openCV, or can be saved to disk as a .jpg file.
You can test it out using terminal:
from moon.terminal_ui import TerminalUi
ui = TerminalUi()
ui.set_moon_phase() #defaults to today's date
print(ui.moon_datetime_info)
ui.show()
You can alternately test it out using Jupyter notebooks:
from moon.jupyter_ui import JupyterUi
ui = JupyterUi()
ui.set_moon_phase() #defaults to today's date
print(ui.moon_datetime_info)
ui.show()
To just use it in a project, you can use it like this:
from moon.dialamoon import Moon
moon = Moon()
moon.set_moon_phase()
and access the image array itself with
moon.image
You can save the current image to disk with the method moon.save_to_disk('filename')
or ui.save_to_disk('filename')
, which would save a filename.jpg
in your current directory.
Updates
Please feel free to post bugs, suggestions and feature requests on this repo. This will be my first time creating and maintaining a python package, and I am receptive to any recommendations or PRs.
Resources:
moon ascii art courtesy of jsg
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