i've been studing the moon for a program.. trying to figure the rise and set times for a little program i am writing. turns out it is impossible to figure the moons position without tables of numbers to work against and those only work for certain peroids of time.

did you know it stays out for almost 15 hours every 28 days?

it also varies its uptime by 40 minutes in just one day.. and it does it all the time.

i've not seen anyone else talk about this, but seems really strange to me.

here is a little table of my results.

(2018-01-24 10:08) - (2018-01-23 20:47)=48060 13:21 00:37

(2018-01-25 10:42) - (2018-01-24 21:58)=45840 12:44 00:37

(2018-01-26 11:14) - (2018-01-25 23:07)=43620 12:07 00:37

(2018-01-27 11:47) - (2018-01-27 00:14)=41580 11:33 00:34

(2018-02-20 08:01) - (2018-02-19 18:19)=49320 13:42 00:35

(2018-02-21 08:37) - (2018-02-20 19:34)=46980 13:03 00:39

(2018-02-22 09:11) - (2018-02-21 20:46)=44700 12:25 00:38

(2018-02-23 09:44) - (2018-02-22 21:57)=42420 11:47 00:38

(2018-03-20 06:29) - (2018-03-19 17:05)=48240 13:24 00:36

(2018-03-21 07:04) - (2018-03-20 18:19)=45900 12:45 00:39

(2018-03-22 07:38) - (2018-03-21 19:32)=43560 12:06 00:39

(2018-03-23 08:12) - (2018-03-22 20:43)=41340 11:29 00:37