Moonphase for Objective-C

gistfile1.m

@interface MoonPhase : NSObject {
@private
	NSDate *now;
}

- (float) phase;

@end

// ---------------------------------------

#import "MoonPhase.h"

float fixangle( float angle ){
	return angle - 360.0f * ( floor ( angle / 360.0f ) );
}

float torad( float deg ){
	return deg * ( M_PI / 180.0f );
}

float todeg( float rad ){
	return rad * ( 180.0f / M_PI );
}

float dsin( float deg ){
	return sin( torad( deg ) );
}

double jtime( double t ){
	return (t / 86400.0f) + 2440587.5f;
}

float kepler( float m, float ecc ){
	float EPSILON = 0.000001f;
	m = torad(m);
	float e = m;
	float delta;
	
	// first time
	delta = e - ecc * sin(e) - m;
	e -= delta / ( 1.0f - ecc * cos(e) );
	
	// loop
	while( abs(delta) > EPSILON ){
		delta = e - ecc * sin(e) - m;
		e -= delta / ( 1.0f - ecc * cos(e) );
	}
	
	return e;
}

@implementation MoonPhase

- (id) init {
    self = [super init];
    if (self) {
		now = [NSDate date];
    }
    return self;
}

- (void) dealloc {
    [super dealloc];
}

- (float) phase {
	// const
	double Epoch = 2444238.5;
	float Elonge = 278.833540;
	float Elongp = 282.596403;
	float Eccent = 0.016718;
	float Mmlong = 64.975464;
	float Mmlongp = 349.383063;
	float Mlnode = 151.950429;
	float Minc = 5.145396;
	
	NSTimeInterval d = [now timeIntervalSince1970];

	double pdate = jtime( (float)d );
	double Day = pdate - Epoch;
	
	double N = fixangle( ( 360.0f / 365.2422f ) * Day );
	double M = fixangle( N + Elonge - Elongp );
	double Ec = kepler( M, Eccent );
	Ec = sqrt( ( 1.0f + Eccent ) / ( 1.0f - Eccent ) ) * tan( Ec / 2.0f );
	Ec = 2.0f * todeg( atan( Ec ) );
	double Lambdasun = fixangle( Ec + Elongp );

	double ml = fixangle( 13.1763966f * Day + Mmlong );
	double MM = fixangle( ml - 0.1114041f * Day - Mmlongp );
	double MN = fixangle( Mlnode - 0.0529539f * Day );
	double Ev = 1.2739f * sin( torad( 2.0f * ( ml - Lambdasun ) - MM ) );
	double Ae = 0.1858f * sin( torad( M ) );
	double A3 = 0.37f * sin( torad( M ) );
	double MmP = MM + Ev - Ae - A3;
	double mEc = 6.2886f * sin( torad( MmP ) );
	double A4 = 0.214f * sin( torad( 2.0f * MmP ) );
	double lP = ml + Ev + mEc - Ae + A4;
	double V = 0.6583f * sin( torad( 2.0f * ( lP - Lambdasun ) ) );
	double lPP = lP + V;
	double NP = MN - 0.16f * sin( torad( M ) );
	double y = sin( torad( lPP - NP ) ) * cos( torad( Minc ) );
	double x = cos( torad( lPP - NP ) );
	double Lambdamoon = todeg( atan2( y, x ) );
	Lambdamoon += NP;
	
	double MoonAge = lPP - Lambdasun;
	float mpfrac = fixangle( MoonAge ) / 360.0f;
	
	return mpfrac;
}

@end

How do I change the now variable to seconds since 1980?

//NSDate * aDate = [NSDate dateWithString:@"1980-01-01 00:00:00 +1100"];
NSDate *aDate = (NSDate*)@"1980-01-01 00:00:00 +1100";
//NSDate *since1980 = [NSDate date];
//NSDate *tomarow = [today dateByAddingTimeInterval:60*60*24];
NSDate *seconds = [NSDate dateWithTimeInterval:60*60*24 sinceDate:aDate];
NSLog(@"seconds since Jan 1980 %@",seconds);

NSTimeInterval d = [now timeIntervalSince1970];

So how can we do something similar to Astro::Moonphase Perl .

See http://search.cpan.org/~brett/Astro-MoonPhase/MoonPhase.pm#phase()

where it prints:

Example:

@phases = phasehunt();
print "New Moon      = ", scalar(localtime($phases[0])), "\n";
print "First quarter = ", scalar(localtime($phases[1])), "\n";
print "Full moon     = ", scalar(localtime($phases[2])), "\n";
print "Last quarter  = ", scalar(localtime($phases[3])), "\n";
print "New Moon      = ", scalar(localtime($phases[4])), "\n";

could print something like this:

New Moon      = Wed Jun 24 06:51:47 1998
First quarter = Wed Jul  1 21:42:19 1998
Full moon     = Thu Jul  9 19:02:47 1998
Last quarter  = Thu Jul 16 18:15:18 1998
New Moon      = Thu Jul 23 16:45:01 1998

How to show moonrise in objective c pleasE? thanks!