AKICILJ: Programmable Calendar

[kiya]

In my ongoing goal of distracting myself from my catastrophic meltdown with painfully ludicrous levels of nerdery, I have been attempting to make sense of the Egyptian ritual calendar again. After acquiring sufficient beer to pad the landing, I am left wondering:

Does anyone know of software that can handle scheduling events in relationship to phases of the moon and other astronomical events? (In an ideal world, this would include the capacity to define and distinguish between twelve-lunar-month and thirteen-lunar-month years according to a ruleset.)

So, suggestions?

Comments

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Which definition of blue moon are they using?
Here's why I ask:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/moon/3304131.html?showAll=y&c=y

I can't help with the original request, but I just wanted to note the blue moon issue, as i am the calendar keeper for my coven, and moon celebration (and thus knowing when it's full or dark) are part of my job, as is knowing the lore behind the names we give to each.

Oh, and on the link? People are CHARGING for that? Moon phases are available for free on google calendar.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I don't know which definition they're using. Could be the wrong one. Though I doubt the concept of blue moon has anything to do with ancient Egyptian calendrical practices. It's a native American construct.

[kiya]

Man, I wish this was something that I could do with just keeping track of fulls and darks, because there are calendars for that, and even ordinary mundane paper calendars often have them marked.

But noooooo, I have to have a religion that wants "13 days after the full moon" or "the first dark moon after 137 days, 18 hours, 17 minutes, and 50 seconds after the vernal equinox."

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of studying russian, with their transitive and intransitive verbs of motion, in university: we asked the professor "Did he go, by foot, there and back again, while wearing one red shoe, on a tuesday in june when it was raining?"

[kiya]

The sad thing is that "the first dark moon after 137 days, 18 hours, 17 minutes, and 50 seconds after the vernal equinox" is my simplified calculation...