#MOONEAGE# problem

This is my newest design.

I was pretty pleased with how it came out, but then, it didn’t appear to work on my galaxy 4. The moonphase hand hadn’t moved since I installed it on my watch.
So I made this one to see if my watch was able to use the #MOONAGE# tag

and indeed it was. Plus I noticed that the hand was no longer flush with the new moon phase, So I reloaded the original face onto my watch, and the moon phase hand was now in it’s new position.
So, my question: Is #MOONAGE# one of those variables that doesn’t update regularly? Is there a way to calculate moonage for watches that can’t use the #MOONAGE# tag?
I tried using the formula I had devised for rotation of the moon disk, but couldn’t make any headway with it?
Also, any syntax errors which might be adversely affecting the updating of the moon phase hand position?
Thanks.
-Warren

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Good job my friend, looks quite cool :sunglasses:
I’m sure some math experts will be along to help you soon…
Hand Gif 01

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@wsilbers . I would not call myself an expert but i have done a bit of Moon stuff .

Here is a test with Old and New Moon Formulas on it .

BTW these work fine on my beaten up GW4 Classic.
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I’ve updated my test watchface above. The gold hand still points to the moon phase using #MOONAGE#. The lavender and teal hands underneath the gold hand point to the moon phase using a calculation with #DNOW# and the value of #DNOW# at a previous new moon. This required 2 hands because the position of either hand jus before or just after the full moon were incorrect and so had to have an opacity of 0. I think this works, although I don’t know if it’s necessary since #MOONAGE# appears to be behaving now.

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I was searching for #MOONAGE# tag problems, and came across this topic.
I have the same issue, seems that #MOONAGE# tag doesn’t update until I restart the watch.
Wondering if you have found any solution.

Thanks

I am using Samsung Galaxy Watch6 Classic.

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I have also been playing about with moons recently. I shall have to put one of mine on my GW6 to test over time but it did seem to work on my Fossil using #MOONAGEPERCENT#.
Looking at the tags I think #MOONAGE# is just (#MOONAGEPERCENT#*27) [or 27.3??] so if that tag does update it could be a replacement expression.

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Moon age is 0 to 29.53 and a tiny bit . #MOONAGEPERCENT# is 0 to 1 . ) is New Moon . Facer are trying hard to make Power savings on the App . I would not expect the 15 . decimals running on the display but I would expect it to change on each wake . I would not expect to restart the watch to see a change . I am doing a test right now . I would not be surprised if it changes 4 time a day like the Weather Forecast Data .

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@daghesmr and @rob.fisk . I did a test and those Numbers are static . I tested them over Half an hour and nothing changed. But I did get them to run by Kicking them with #DWE# .Have Fun but be aware that running 16 decimal numbers will use more Battery . It could be done by a bit of Modulo on DWE . I will test it out of interest .

$#DWE#>0?#MOONAGE#:$

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