Moonfield documentation

00 Start hereready

Overview
What is this?
Setup
Your first command
Pre-flight check
Editors and IDEs

01 Time and placeready

Overview
Local time, UTC and timezones
Julian Day
Where are you?
The Longitude Game: Don't Get Lost at Sea

02 Moon phasesready

Overview
Go and look
Why phases happen
Calculating a phase
Synodic and sidereal

03 The Earth-Moon systemready

Overview
Scale
Tidal locking
The orbit is not a circle

04 Tidesready

Overview
What causes tides
The lunar day
Spring and neap tides
Predict → Check → Explain
Why local tides are hard
Overview

05 Your local skyready

Overview
Which way am I facing?
Altitude and azimuth
Why your latitude matters

06 Seasonsready

Overview
The distance misconception
Axial tilt
Solstices and equinoxes

07 Planetsplanned

Overview

08 Constellationsplanned

Overview

09 The physics underneathplanned

Overview

10 Orbital mechanicsplanned

Overview

11 Rocketryplanned

Overview

12 Visualisationplanned

Overview

background Backgroundplanned

Overview
How accurate is Moonfield?
Editable installs
Virtual environments
Why UTC exists

interactives Interactivesplanned

Overview
The Longitude Game

troubleshooting Troubleshootingplanned

Overview
Command cheat sheet
Environment reset
Getting unstuck
Glossary
Linux
macOS
Windows

instructor For instructorsplanned

Overview

Background

Background

Background pages in this collection:

How accurate is Moonfield?
Editable installs
Virtual environments
Why UTC exists

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