Description
Predict Moonlight, Sunlight, and/or Twilight Ground Illuminance.
Description
Predicts ground-level illuminance from moonlight, sunlight, and twilight for specified locations and time periods. The package is intended for field studies in ecology and behavior where natural light levels are used as predictor variables. See Poon et al. (2024) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14299>. Calculations use astronomical quantities from 'suncalc' and published illuminance models, including Austin et al. (1976) <doi:10.2307/2402251> and Seidelmann (1992) <ISBN:0935702687>.
README.md
MoonShineR_package
Updated June 4, 2026
This site hosts the source code for the MoonShineR package.
For further details, see MoonShine suite homepage: https://github.com/Crampton-Lab/MoonShine
Citation: Poon, L., Jenks, I. T., & Crampton, W. G. (2024). MoonShine: A software-hardware system for simulating moonlight ground illuminance and re-creating artificial moonlight cycles in a laboratory environment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(4), 701-715. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14299