This is similar to #27 by @ejeschke, but I'm making a new issue because what I propose here is a larger and probably post-GSoC project.
What really matters for observing is the night-sky brightness in the target direction, not just the moon phase or separation to the moon.
There's models for the contribution from scattered moonlight:
It would be great to have some night sky brightness calculator implemented in astroplan.
I don't know if there's a really simple model that can be implemented in a day, or if they are all complex.
This is similar to #27 by @ejeschke, but I'm making a new issue because what I propose here is a larger and probably post-GSoC project.
What really matters for observing is the night-sky brightness in the target direction, not just the moon phase or separation to the moon.
There's models for the contribution from scattered moonlight:
It would be great to have some night sky brightness calculator implemented in astroplan.
I don't know if there's a really simple model that can be implemented in a day, or if they are all complex.