🌙 Changelog

What's new on maanfase — moon phase, sun & moon times, twilight, planets, sky events, weather, and the subscribable calendar. Newest first.

30 May 2026

Full moon names, supermoons & a shareable card

Full moon names. Every full moon now shows its traditional name — Wolf, Snow, Worm, Pink, Flower, Strawberry, Buck, Sturgeon, Harvest, Hunter's, Beaver and Cold Moon — both on the page and in the calendar feed.
Supermoon & micromoon. Full moons near perigee are tagged Supermoon (up to ~14% bigger, ~30% brighter) and those near apogee Micromoon, in the page and the .ics events.
Moon distance. The moon-now card shows the current Earth–Moon distance with how much it changed since yesterday (±km).
Day length. A new row shows today's daylight with the daily change (e.g. +2m 14s) versus yesterday.
Shareable moon card. A “Share this moon” button renders a poster of tonight's phase, illumination, date and distance — shared via your device on mobile, downloaded as a PNG on desktop.
Precise location. The app now asks for precise GPS and reverse-geocodes it to your actual town — no more silently snapping to the timezone's capital city.
Zodiac, simplified. The zodiac card now shows just the element.

Earlier in 2026

Push notifications. Opt-in web-push alerts ~24h before notable events — phases, eclipses, meteor peaks and aurora (Kp ≥ 5). (Currently paused.)
Location-aware calendar. The subscribable /phases.ics feed gained eclipses, solstices & equinoxes, meteor showers, and local sun/golden-hour events, in NL, EN or both.
Aurora & meteor chips. Tonight's strip surfaces a live aurora chance (NOAA Kp) and the next meteor-shower peak.

The foundations

Moon phase, live. Accurate phase, illumination and age, with a hand-drawn moon and an optional real NASA imagery toggle.
Sun & moon times. Rise and set for your location, plus dawn, dusk, blue hour and golden hour.
Visible planets. Which planets are up tonight and when they rise or set.
Coming up. Upcoming phases, eclipses and seasonal turning points.
Weather & NASA APOD. Local forecast and NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Bilingual. Full Dutch / English, auto-detected on first visit.

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