About ASCIIMoon

ASCIIMoon is a small web app that tracks the moon's phases and uses ASCII art to create a basic visual representation of the moon's current appearance based on light percentage.

This is a personal project, and is in no way a precise representation.

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Repo/Source Code

Here is the link to the GitHub repository and source code:

SunCalc Library for Moon Phase Calculations

This website uses the SunCalc library via a CDN to track the moonlight percentage.suncalc.net.

Photo of the Moon is from NASA's Archive

The photo of the Moon used on this site is from NASA's archive: images.nasa.gov/details-PIA00405.

It was taken on December 7, 1992 by the Galileo on its way towards the Jupiter system.

ASCII Art Generated by Manytools.org

Ascii art from the moon photo was generated thanks to manytools.org/hacker-tools/convert-images-to-ascii-art.

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