[scopes] does not report total eclipse of the moon

[Rüdiger Kupper]

Today scope does not report today's total eclipse of the moon. Very disappointing. And a good chance lost making people curious about ubuntu...

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Where is today scope aggregating it's information from? It should certainly include information like daily eclipses.

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Hi Rüdiger,

The information shown is the phase of the moon. Astronomy information such as Eclipses, while cool & interesting, is additional information that is not currently in plan.

Perhaps someone should write an astronomy scope for this sort of info?

Cheers

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Hi Kyle,
thanks for your comment: +1 for an astronomy scope, good idea :-) -- while this is not exactly what I meant: I would not really expect the today scope to report coordinates of constellations, activity of the sun or the setting time of mars.

However, there may be events of a day that can arguably be called "interesting" for the average user. You are already doing this for holidays and important news. the current approach is to have specialized scopes for each type of event (news, holidays, astronomy, ...) which then can get aggregated in the today scope.
Our current problem is that there are relatively few of these scopes, and we need potentially very many (see the astronomy scope).

My idea was more along the line of having a "special events" scope. Obviously, this scope could not gather its information form automatic sources (like reading constellation data from an astronomical database). It would need to be compiled by editors. Like "What are the three most interesting events for today?" Interesting not necessarily meaning most important (these can be gathered form the news scope). More like: Giving users of the Ubunut phone the feeling of being a little bit better informed, a little bit ahead of other users, and a little more content :-).

I would have felt this way, if my Ubuntu phone had said: "Today's special event: total eclipse of the moon." Today it could be: "Germany united 25 years ago." That's not on the top of news.google.com, still it's valuable information.

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Hi,

Interesting idea! But, as you noted, that would also require a team of editors working everyday, a pretty large project.

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

You may be right, it might not be feasible. (Unless there is already a service like that on the internet which we can link to. -- Is there?)
Let's keep the idea on the wish list. Where would I file feature suggestions for Ubuntu phone?
Regards, Rüdiger