I don't have pyephem installed as far as I know, should i for this to work properly?
Colin www.41south.net.nz On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:54 AM Colin Larsen <colin.lar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes I am > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, 11:40 Thomas Keffer, <tkef...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Colin and Philip >> >> Are you both using the Belchertown skin? >> >> -tk >> >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 4:35 PM Colin Larsen <colin.lar...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> -- >> 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.
