Moon Phase Widget no longer shows the Moon

Could it be related to the shutdown?

I also have APOD viewer widget installed and it, too, is broken.

APOD widget relies on NASA feeds which have been shutdown. Apparently, though, the actual APOD does NOT depend upon NASA, so that different apps/widgets could still work-- if they fetched their info from other than NASA.

In any event, I share your pain-- for amateur astronomy and telescope purposes, wish that it were always NO MOON!

I've had this widget installed... http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/information/moonphase_udellenterprisesi nc.html

But it decided to stop showing the moon phase, just a "?" mark. Then all of sudden the Dashboard process would start using a lot of my CPU resources, as much as 120%. On a 2011 and 2012 Mac Mini. Deleted that widget and the Dashboard process has been fine ever since.

All this happened a month ago, so way before the gov shut down.

KOT

Yep, government back up and running and the Moon Phase widget still shows no Moon. Alas, wish it were new Moon, but that big bright ball in the sky the last few nights confirmed this widget is broken. Too bad as it is was quick, clean, and simple!

I installed "Lunar Phase" instead. It shows upcoming key phases (mini-versions) in additon to the Big Moon. Alas, though, the dates are too small to read!

If you have any other leads on a good Moon widget, please post for the rest of us!

AstroMacMan... thanks for the tip on the 'Lunar Phase' widget. I miss the simple elegance of the Moon Phase widet, but the 'Lunar Phase' one provides the info I want.

I typed in "lunar phase" in the app store and these two apps came up. So which one are ya'll talking about so that I can purchase the correct one.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deluxe-moon-hd-moon-phase/id463298923?mt=12

And

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lunar-pal/id525269278?mt=12

Or if it's another, just paste the link here please.

Thank you,

KOT

This discussion is about widgets for the dashboard on Macs, not apps. The 'Lunar Phase' widget is free and can be found:

http://www.rareworksllc.com/moon-lunar-phases.html

Hope this helps.

Yes it does help, thank you.

The links that I've posted are for widgets in the Dashboard too, but they are just through Apple's App store.

Have you noticed any CPU usage from it? I ask, because the widget that I used before would use a lot of cpu. Whether the Mac was idle or not. This was the case on both of my Mac Minis. As soon as I deleted the widget, both Macs were at ease. Although it took a few days for the cpu usage to show up.

KOT

I just installed the new widget today, but nothing out of the ordinary yet. It's behaving itself quite nicely so far.

Landed on this page wondering the same thing. Still not working here in the Philippines.

On another note, has anyone experienced 90% CPU load from the Dashboard process lately? I tried removing the moon phase widget and the CPU usage dropped. Don't know if it's related.

That was my problem with it, check out my post about it. Just a few post above on Oct 14, 2013 9:21 AM.

KOT

Oooh! Saw it. Can't believe I missed that. Yeah, it's a pain. I kept peeking into the dashboard and saw nothing unusual there then just randomly chose the moon phase as the culprit. I tried killing the process but after a few mins it would be back up hogging CPU.

Yup, I too kept on killing the process. Only to have it come back a few minutes later.

I was lucky enough to have iStat pro installed and was able to view the history of my CPU history, up to a year I think. And the usage went up a day or two after install. I also installed it on another Mac, but a week later. And when I saw the CPU usage go up on both Macs a day or two after install. I immediately remove that widget and things went back to normal.

So far this new app hasn't done anything bad. :-)

KOT

I've had the same problem with Moon Phase for a couple months it seems; yes, way before the govt shutdown. Today I trashed it and tried to download. Two attempts but kept getting server error or something. I guess it's broken and/or the developers have given up on it. Apple shouldn't keep it as a download if something's wrong with it, especially since it's been problematic for so long.

At any rate, thanks for the Lunar Phase link. Works well so far, and it shows future phases; cool.

➕➕➕ Nice. Thanks for this link