This gadget provides some up-to-date information on the times of rising and setting of the Moon, for your location. The times and dates of moon rise and set events which occur within a configured "time window" are displayed. This defaults to ±24 hours of now, but can be changed using the configuration options of the gadget. Rise and set events which occured in the past are displayed against a grey background. Events which will occur in the future are displayed against a white background.

Below this, you can optionally display some current info about the moon, including whether it is above or below the horizon, the constellation it is currently moving through, a general description of the moon's visibility in the night sky, the percentage illumination, a description of the phase (e.g., "waxing crescent"), the angular size of the moon and the angular distance between the moon and the sun.

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This webpage module provides some basic, up-to-date information on the sun, moon and planets. The intention is to provide some fun and useful information about these (and other) astronomical objects. For each object (sun, moon, etc.), the information displayed includes the constellation the object is currently in and a general description of the object's location in the sky (e.g., "visible in the sky after sunset"). You can also use this to display information about any object in our catalog, including asteroids and comets.

If the sun is near an equinox or a solstice, this is noted. For the moon, the percentage illumination and a description of the phase (e.g., "waxing crescent") is also given. If any planet is near conjunction (very close to the sun) or opposition (opposite the sun in the sky), this is mentioned. Additionally, if Mercury or Venus is nearing "greatest elongation", this is noted. These are times when Mercury and Venus are particularly well placed for observation. If the Moon or any of the planets lie within several degrees of each other in the sky (nominally 6°) this is noted as well.

This module has proven to be very popular, with weekly averages of one request received every 6 seconds by telescope-net servers from more than 11000 unique IP addresses. The module also appears on a number of webpages, such as nineplanets.org.

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This webpage module shows the latest image observed through the telescope-net system, along with some information about that image. You can click on the image for a larger view.

The More images link will open another browser tab, showing the twelve images most recently processed along with links to the full-resolution images and versions which can be viewed in Google Earth.

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