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Autofilled ephemerides for the Moon are wrong.

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The ephemerides that appear in the night log don't match those computed by Skycalc and are completely wrong for the Moon. E.g. for the night of 31 March 2021

Date (eve/morn) JDmid LMSTmidn ---------- Sun: --------- LST twilight: ------------- Moon: --------------
(2021 at start) (-2450000) set twi.end twi.beg rise eve morn rise set %illum RA Dec
Wed Mar 31/Thu Apr 01 9305.8 12 13 03 18 50 20 09 4 52 6 10 8 21 17 05 22 24 ..... 82 15 57.8 -19 55

whereas the log has
sunset: 18:45
18(o) twilight ends: 20:07
18(o) twilight ends: 04:51
sunrise: 06:14
moonrise: 04:17
moonset: 16:07
Illumination: 0.795

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