LunarPhase for Windows

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Download.com staffAugust 20, 2015

Unlike some of its rivals, LunarPhase doesn't offer a list of home locations. Instead, you have to manually fill in the GMT time zone, longitude, and latitude of your city. The brushed-metal interface looks great, but you can't move or resize the window. The tool tips display too slowly. Once we started exploring the program, though, we forgave these flaws. You can view information on any day in the current month by clicking the date, as in any calendar program. What's even cooler is that you can click into the month or date field and change those parameters, too. Thus we learned that when man was first walking on the moon on July 20, 1969, a waxing crescent shone on San Francisco. A lunar eclipse calculator tells you when the next eclipses will occur, whether it's total, and whether it will be visible from your home location. The program provides a database of lunar features, although only experts will be able to make sense of the lunar coordinates. The trial version lets you use the program up to 100 times during 30 days. Moonstruck amateur astronomers will enjoy LunarPhase.

LunarPhase for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: February 18, 2002

Latest update: August 20, 2015

Version: 2.62

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 95
Windows 10
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 98
Windows ME

Additional Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP

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Total Downloads: 16,545

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

5/5

1 User Votes

Great Tool - more popular than portrayed here at cnet
horustwohawksNovember 28, 2008
Pros
Lots of features and information packed into a small footprint and size, and easy to use but thoughtfully detailed interface. Some relevant solar info too, and lots of resources included.
Cons
None that I can think of.
Summary
This is actually a very popular tool for amateurs as well as novices, just not downloaded from here much evidently, so I thought I'd chime in about it. I am amateur astronomer for long years, been using this adjunctively for long time. Nugent (the author) is known amater-astronomer as well, and keeps this utility up to date still. No, don't know him - not a vanity plug. Try it - it won't disappoint.

Developer’s Description

By LunarPhase Pro

Study the moon and its phases.