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This widget expects you're running it for the location you're in, not some remote location.

The file timezone-snippet.txt grabs the remote time zone based on location and seems to work well for DST. I'm not sure there's a reason to have this; using the local date +%z saves an API call.

The math to determine which icon to use looks right (and the proper code appears in console.error) but I'm a Javascript/Coffeescript/SVG neophyte. I need to learn why this is failing.

The file illumtab.txt.* is a plain text, space-formatted table of the moon's illumination from USNO, created and deleted by get-phase.sh. It's parsed using grep and cut to pull data from the proper row and column, which works well enough.

I have no idea if this can be done any other way given the format of the source data.

I have been getting a message "Failed to reach USNO illumination table" for about a week now. When I checked the USNO website it appears to be be unreachable... Anyone know what is going on?

It would be nice to have 30 icons instead of 28.

As per erikflowers/weather-icons#153

The icon font has a (roughly) 2.5:1 aspect ratio. Equatorial will widen the layout and might break the CSS display; should be no issue for the southern hemisphere (180 degree flip).

For more visual accuracy, one could rotate the icon based on the current phase. For example, a one-day old crescent will be rotated about 90 degrees as it leads/follows the sun.

I just have to figure out how.

Another API call to USNO would give an oversized image, good for the northern hemisphere only I suspect. It would have to be scaled and rotated on the fly. Or, collect a representative sample set.

Ref. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/api.php#diskmap

I pull astronomical data from USNO but, as of today, the site is no longer serving the public:

"You have attempted to access a blocked website. Access to this website has been blocked for operational reasons by the DOD Enterprise-Level Protection System."

I've added a check to help with parsing this and I'll give the issue some time to resolve itself but I may be forced to switch data sources.