Moonstick Moonstick/Setting Example

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The scans below depict the Moonstick reporting dates of the full moon in Rome in 44 BC. The basic Moonstick function is to report the phase of the moon for a given date. Scale 5 is inverted to report the dates for a given phase. (The image for Scale 0 is repeated for clarity.)

Moonstick set to list full moons for 44 BC

OK, OK, the dates given are:

5 January 30 July
3 February 29 August
5 March 27 September
3 April 27 October
3 May 25 November
1 June 25 December
1 July

In the year Julius Caesar was assassinated, there was a blue moon in his eponymous month. He never got to see it.)

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