Tonight's Moon Is
Paste this page's URL (almost) anywhere to embed an image of the current lunar phase.

What Is This
I often need an image of the moon. As a software developer interested in the cosmic I find myself regularly searching "what is tonight's moon phase", and then cross referencing a folder full of images on my machine to find the right one.
As "Don't Repeat Yourself" is a hallowed development principle I thought I would build a system that makes sharing an image of the current moon phase as easy as sharing a link; this page is that system.
Paste this URL (almost) anywhere and it'll show an up-to-date image of the moon.
How Is It Used
Social Media & MMS
Just copy the link from the url bar and paste it into most platforms. The link will embed a formatted preview that shows the current phase and date. It's that easy. Here's a Twitter example
How Does It Work?
Imprecisely calculating the lunar phase is actually a pretty easy problem (one that gets crazy difficult when you want specificity) and, luckily, a bunch of people have open sourced their approaches.
I adapted a phase-calculation approach from Ben Daglish and, based on the current phaes, redraw the image that lives at a specific path on my server. By doing this I can change the image every evening without changing the URL, allowing me to easily embed an updating image. After that, it's just doing some Oembed/Open Graph stuff to make the image look nice when it's shared.