You can ask CEH to calculate the New and Full Moon dates for the year. You do this using a single checkbox on the "Choose Event Type" dialog. Here is a screen shot for you:
CEH will mark your CEH event file to include Lunar Dates and will bring up very busy requestor that will need most often about 2 changes to set some Lunar information. You may want the Lunar dates to be calculated acording to UTC or to Local time. If you want Local time, CEH will need to know your Time Zone (or the Time Zone for which you are creating the calendar). Here is a screen shot of the Lunar information dialog:
Actually, all of the items will be ghosted until you select the "Calculate New Moon Dates" checkbox. The year will be set to the current year. And the Time Zone and Daylight Savings Offsets will be set to the Time Zone and DST values currently set on your computer. In most cases you can ignore these and continue to the Changeover Date Selection group box.
If you observe the First Sunday in April and the Last Sunday in October as your changeover dates for daylight savings time, click on the "North American" radio button. If you observe the Last Sunday in March and the Last Sunday in October as your changeover dates for daylight savings time, click on the "European" radio button. Almost everyone on the face of the planet uses one of these two methods and of those that don't, almost all of them don't change. Actually it will make very little difference in the calculation. CEH is attempting to tell you what evening the New and Full Moon will happen on and not what time it will happen. Your longitude (Time Zone) is the most important item.
Click on the OK button and return to editing your events. This dialog is global to an event file and once selected it calculates all months in the calendar year.
is required for
you to be able to use CEH, but
once you have both these programs, you are building calendars quick, fast and easy!
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