i nerd sniped myself tonight and i imagine the NSA operative who is assigned to me is very confused by the increasingly erratic and frustrated google searches for HOW DO I CALCULATE THE MOON WHERE IS THE MOON
I just want to calculate the current direction of tidal force from the observer's earth-relative position in space and time is that so wrong
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In case you wanted to use this to simulate tides, there'd be lots of way ahead of you once you do that: tides are very not neat, because not all of Earth is covered by deep enough water (and so they happen on a ~daily cycle, but how high they are and what's the phase offset, and even what's the shape of the function of tide height over time depends on terrain shape in some complicated way).
@robryk not simulating the real pull of celestial bodies on real water, but rather simulating the completely imaginary pull of celestial bodies on music