Cerestial is a REST application that is hosted at

[cerestial.space](https://cerestial.space/). It started kind of as a joke in

[chrissiecodes twitch stream](https://twitch.tv/chrissiecodes), between

[FaffinABoot](https://twitch.tv/FaffinABoot),

[QuLogic](https://twitch.tv/qulogic),

[rw_grim](https://twitch.tv/rw_grim),

[techygrrrl](https://twitch.tv/techygrrrl), and

[TheIdOfAlan](https://twitch.tv/theidofalan) that there was no rest API for

checking the phase of the moon.

grim ran with the idea and started a simple proof of concept in golang where he

was trying to do the math. This eventually gave way to using a library instead,

but the idea was already running.

grim also named the project and registered the domain

[cerestial.space](https://cerestial.space/) which techygrrrl suggested as the

TLD. The name is a pun of celestial but since it's a REST API we had to get

rest in the name somewhere.

The logo was designed by techygrrrl and was picked via a poll in grim's twitch

chat.

Cerestial is a stand golang application, you can build it with `go build`. A

`Dockerfile` is also provided to build and run the container, but the image is

deployed to `hub.docker.com/rwgrim/cerestial:latest`.

Cerestial runs on HTTP port `3000`. In the future we will provide more

documentation on the REST endpoints.