Hmmmm yes mine is way out too. 40.5% actual versus 34% shown on my website On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, 11:26 Thomas Keffer, <tkef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can't help you with the first of your two questions. > > Regarding the second, when I look at my own skin > <http://www.threefools.org/weewx/>, it shows 41% for today. Are you sure > you're not looking at an old, perhaps cached, version? > > -tk > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 2:45 PM Philip Kutzenco <kutze...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I've noticed that some information from the DarkSky API as well as >> calculated moon phase don't seem to be correct or consistent with other >> sources of data on WeeWX. Here's what I have seen: >> >> *DarkSky API* - I display a minimal 8 day forecast on the Belchertown >> Skin. When I pull down the values using the SPI directly with my lat and >> long, the values pulled down match what the skin shows. However, If I go to >> DarkSky.net using the same location, the values (like min & max temp, >> weather icon, precip probability etc.) are usually very different. I'm >> pretty tuned into the weather right now as I live in Western North Carolina >> and will be impacted by the remains of Florence over the next several days. >> What's going on with the DarkSky API? >> >> *Moon phase* - WeeWX shows the moon phase for today to be a waxing >> crescent - 24% (I think that means 24% visible or illuminated). When I do >> the calculation using python's ephem module - >> *print(ephem.Moon(datetime.date.today()).moon_phase)* - the answer I get >> for moon phase is 31.19%. I thought that WeeWX used ephem for that >> calculation. On timeanddate.com today's moon phase is 39.5%. At >> http://aa.usno.navy.mil, 37% of the moon is illuminated today. Why such >> a variation? >> >> These two items are vexing me. Can someone help explain these anomalies? >> >> Phil >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
