Phase Of The Moon and Lunar Calendars And Eclipse Finder Software for Windows

Chinese Calendrics
$29 - Hermetic Systems

The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a solilunar calendar, consisting of months corresponding exactly to lunar cycles and years which stay more-or-less in sync with seasonal years. The structure of the calendar depends on the exact times of certain astronomical events, principally dark moons and winter solstices.

The solar calendar consists of a series of seasonal years which are divided into 24 "solar terms". The lunar calendar consists of a series of years which are divided into 12 or 13 lunar months. A solar year always begins at the (northern) winter solstice. A lunar month always begins on the day of a dark moon.

Chinese Calendrics is used to do the following:

To convert between dates in the Chinese solar and lunar calendars and dates in the Common Era and Julian calendars.
To calculate the date of New Year's Day in the Chinese lunar calendar.
To ascertain the Western dates of the starts of all lunar months in a year in the lunar calendar.
To find leap months in the lunar calendar.
To find the Western dates corresponding to Chinese anniversaries (e.g., birthdays).
To move forward or backward from a given date (and time) either by a period such as a month (Western or Chinese) or by any number of days.
To calculate the phase of the Moon for any time within a 6000-year period.
To search for the next or previous full moon, dark moon, lunar quarter, solar term or solstice or equinox of a certain type.
To search for a solstice or an equinox in combination with a dark moon or a full moon.
To search for the next or previous day, month or year with a certain element-animal correspondence (e.g., the next water-rabbit year or the next fire-chicken day).
To find days for which the element-animal is the same for day, month and year.

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EarthWatch
$25 - ElanWare, Inc.

EarthWatch (for Windows) displays a graphical world clock with dynamic map image of the world showing the day and night areas, a sundial, and an almanac information panel featuring sunrise/sunset times and much more -- all in real-time or time-lapse animation.

EarthWatch is informative, educational, and beautiful, and includes the following features:

* Option to choose from two map types: political or natural.
* Graphical presentation of the day and night areas of the earth.
* Selection of any date from the year -4000 to + 4000.
* Comparison of sunrise/sunset times with those of the previous day.
* Display of the lat/long coordinates and names of major cities as you move the cursor over the map.
* Sunrise and sunset times for the specified location and date.
* Current northern and southern hemisphere seasons for the date selected.
* Number of days until the beginning of the next season for the date selected.
* Option to overlay on the map the world time zone boundaries and the local hour in each for the date/time selected.
* Option to show the sun on the map where it is at the zenith.
* Option to overlay the analemma (sun's apparent annual track) on the map image.
* Option to show the moon on the map where it is at the zenith.
* Age and phase of the moon for the date selected.
* Option to overlay major lat/long, Arctic and Antarctic circle, and Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn lines on the map.
* Option to highlight the locations of some 350 major cities on the map.
* An "animation" option, displaying a "time-lapse" mode with pre-settable time step increments, ranging from any fraction of an hour to 100 years, either forward or backward in time.
* Option to show a sundial with corrections for longitude, daylight savings time, and the equation of time.
* An online help feature with index and hyperlinks.
* Any EarthWatch setup may be saved in a configuration file and later restored by opening the file.

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12Ghosts ShowTime
$22 - 12Ghosts Inc.

Enhance your taskbar clock to show the date and a second time zone. You may display seconds smaller and the date in a different color, for example. Everything is configurable, the display of the date and time, font, size, colors, alignment, and shadow effect.

12-ShowTime displays the time and date either in the tray or in a free movable window, which can be set to stay in the title bar of the active window. It displays the phase of moon and age of moon. A configurable tray icon can display a part of the date or time.

It wouldn't be a real clock if it didn't have an alarm that can be set daily or at a certain date. You may choose as alarm melody any .wav or .mid file. The comfortable snooze function reminds you repeatedly until it is answered. With a configurable list of 12 world times in a separate, movable window, chimes every quarter, hour signal, chronograph, and quickly accessible countdown the program is powerful and a pleasure to use.

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MB Free Moon Phase
$0 - MysticBoard.com

MB Free Moon Phase is one of the most simple and accurate moon phase calculator software. The program has been uniquely designed to calculate which phase the Moon is passing through on any particular day. The program is based on the astronomy calculations which in turn are dependant upon the relative position of the sun, moon and the earth. Moon phases are caused by the positions of the Earth in relation to that of the Sun and the Moon. On an average it takes 27 days 7 hours and 43 minutes fro the Moon to revolve around the Erath. It is known to all of us that the Moon reflects the light of the Sun. And thus the Sun always illuminates one half of the Moon that is facing the sun, except during lunar eclipses. During its transition around the Earth, when the Sun and the Moon are positioned on the opposite sides of the Earth, the moon to be bright and completely round. This is the 'full moon' day; again, when the moon falls in between the earth and the sun, it is known as the 'Dark Moon' day. Like this the moon phase is ever changing. The software is simple and 'user-friendly'; the best part is, it is totally free of cost and the reading takes just a few minutes to be administered.

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Phases of the Moon
$9.95 - EleFun Multimedia

"Phases of the Moon" - Animated Screensaver by EleFun Multimedia. Do you enjoy your desktop having beautiful and animated screensaver? Just have a look at the Animated Screensaver "Phases of the Moon". The Moon is great, the Moon is beautiful. The Moon have a 10 phases and you can see all phases on this starry sky. This beautifully! Install Animated Screensaver "Phases of the Moon" enjoy the beauty moon sky.

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Desktop Lunar Calendar
$19.95 - MoonPhaseSoftware

Desktop Lunar Calendar is simple, fun and easy to use calendar. It is accurate anywhere in the world. It has two parts: image of the current moon's phase and compact, harmonic moon calendar. The 4 main quarter phases - Full, New, First Quarter, and Last Quarter - are marked on the calendar.
You can change color of the calendar, size of the moon's image, time's format and more, download now!

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