Moon phase formula

Hello everyone,
I’m opening this post with the same title as the one I was inspired by, but since it’s old, I don’t know if it was appropriate to post there:

For my watch face, I used the formulas from the last reply:

but I noticed they don’t correspond to reality.
Or rather: on the “creator” app, the phases are fairly consistent (Pisa-Italy) with the lunar calendar I find online. But, for example, while on the “creator” app yesterday I saw this phase:

On the smartwatch, I saw this:
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From this site

I see that on July 21st the Moon is waxing.

Above all, I’m wondering why there’s this difference between “creator” and smartwatch.

Thanks

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As Far as I know ther should be little difference betewwen your location and Creator . Creator reports the Moon phases as per Los Angeles . Pleas make sure when you are doing tests that the date on creator time machine and your Moon phase calanders is the same . I am very happy with what I have seen so far . +/- half a day . I am in the UK .

Thanks for the feedback.
Of course, I’m comparing the watch and the creator on the same day.
I’m probably doing something wrong, I just need to figure out what :slight_smile:

Maybe it’s all in your observation: “Creator reports the Moon phases as per Los Angeles”…

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As far as I know there should not be too much difference visually of the Moon Phase observed from the planet apart from inversion for the Southern Hemisphere . Obviously there is a small Time zone difference . For me we are doing Art not Science . If you made your face Inspectable we could have a look inside at the workings .

Very gladly, thank you for your time.
This way, can you see it?

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I have had a very quick look . You have over complicated things . If you are not using more than 8 images post them into the Facer Moon Phase Layer . I assume you only want to show the moon at night . Use ISDAY . I will get back in a bit .

#DISDAYTIME# returns true or false mathamaticaly 1 or 0 . Most go for that . Toggles at SR and SS .