Deluxe Moon for Windows Phone 7–for the more ethereal amongst us

January 4, 2011 | By Surur

Deluxe Moon is absolutely beautiful, but I suspect only an essential app for the few amongst us. If you are however one of these, you will likely believe the moon strongly affects everything on the Earth, including many aspects of your life, including influence human emotions, relationships, blood pressure an even finances.

LifeWare Solutions has created Deluxe Moon, which allows one to enjoy moon phases and beautifully animated zodiac circles. Browse moon calendar, get automatic GPS location or set any location, date, time manually. Learn about gardening by the moon, read multi-aspect horoscope and moon day descriptions. Look at moon azimuth, moonrise time and learn when next moon phase is. Explore moon phases and unique moon astrology on your Windows Phone 7 device with style.

The app features:

Moon calendar with moon phases and zodiac signs.
Moon compass shows current moon azimuth as well as moonrise and moonset azimuths.
Phase scan tells you when the next phase will be.
Automatic positioning by GPS or cellular network.
Network independence: works anywhere without Internet or cellular connections.
Flexibility: you can manually set location, time, date and UTC offset.
Three animated Zodiac circles.
Sidereal and tropical zodiacs along with astronomical constellations.
Sidereal and tropical zodiacs along with astronomical constellations.
Horoscope with aspects for business, personal life and health.
Moon day descriptions.
Void-Of-Course: when the Moon transits from one Zodiac sign to another.
Gardening by the phases of the moon information for each phase.
Percent of the illuminated moon area.
Moonrise and moonset, Zenith and Nadir times for your location.
Moon Timers: amount of time since moonrise and until moonset.
Current moon’s age: how far along the moon is in its full cycle.

A fully-functional Silverlight simulator is available here.

Deluxe Moon is $2.99 and available in Marketplace here.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged software, video, windows phone 7

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Wrong font.

Typography is important in WP7.

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Sorry, my bad.

It's actually Segoe, but for some reason the font is squished.

Nice zodiac dial, strange navigation though.

KCMatt

Thanks for the heads-up. I had Deluxe Moon for WM6.5, which was free, and it was a beautiful little app, maybe the best I'd seen on the platform. For me it was cool to go, 'looks like a full moon' and check the app- 'actually 97%, 100% tomorrow.' This version does a lot more, but at $2.99, not for me.

jimski

Well it was $4.99 last week. I like the app, but think that $1.99 is the right price. Maybe next week.

http://lifewaresolutions.com/ Lifeware Solutions

Deluxe Moon Classic had been released.
Check the price
FREE Trial!

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WP7Fan

I used to have the WM6.5 version also, for the same reason.
However, more important was that you could see your raw GPS coördinates instead of only seeing a mapmarker (like on google maps). That was much more important to me, and this was the app that showed me this with the least clicks.

http://lifewaresolutions.com/ Lifeware Solutions

Thanks.
All comments and notes are highly appreciated.

1. "Wrong font" this is a Silverlight running on Mac! It's not an emulator.
By the way 100% FREE demo is available for everyone @ lifewaresolutions.com

2. "Strange navigation": We are experimenting with navigation and design It's a regular panorama + some accelerators.

3. Astrology can be turned off in options

4. We are working on some stuff for $1.99, but no more price drops are planned for the Delxe Moon.

We do believe into the great business potential of Windows Phone 7

Bob

Very nice app. If by "accelerators", you mean the use of vertical buttons to pan vertically within the panorama, I like it!

http://www.lifewaresolutions.com Alex

If you want to try Deluxe Moon app, you can do it on your PC or Mac right away: install Silverlight and enjoy full web demo – it is exactly the same as Windows Phone 7 app on your phone:
http://www.lifewaresolutions.com/deluxe_moon_demo…
DaFoo

I don't buy things made on Macs.

Guest

I don't buy anything based on stupid zodiac/astrology BS. And yes, I will point and laugh at people I see using this.
Freaks.

Lifeware Solutions

For WP7 development we use Visual Studio 2010 + Expression Blend

All stuff runs on PCs so there is nothing to worry about . The point of this video is to encourage developers of making Silverlight demo versions for their great WP7 software. This helps people [even those who uses Macs ] to learn more about WP7 which is really fantastic!
Wiz

In canada it is deluse moon lite and a lot of the functions are non existance, moon phases and moonset and rise. why do we not have the full version here in Canada. Love how we always get the shaft from the USA
Wiz

correction: moon phases and moonset rise is about all we get