# MoonHappy

I see it fitting to give a bit of background as to the origins of the name MoonHappy. To be clear, it is not a nickname or programmer handle by any means, but rather I use it as an entity to group all code repos and other content that I produce under a single banner, so to say. Hence, MoonHappy is not a company or organisation, though I won't rule that (who knows the future right?).

## An Astronomical Occurrence

![DSC01610.JPG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1653749343127/oZNoyW35z.JPG align="left")

Sometime around the summer of 2008 (I can't remember the precise date, though reports say the event [occurred February 2008](https://www.smh.com.au/national/smiley-face-makes-encore-performance-20081202-6p8d.html)), the planets of Venus and Jupiter aligned with a crescent moon to form a peculiar sight. There was a smiley face in the night sky!

What I thought most impressive was that from all other reports and photos taken that I had seen, the view from where I lived as a kid seemed to be the perfect place in the world for the cosmic event. As can be seen in the photo I snapped, the moon and planets were in perfect orientation to make an unmistakably pleasant smile, as to treat us mere mortals with a period of tranquility.

## MoonHappy

From taking that original photo and adorning it with the name MoonHappy, it always fills me joy and sense of nostalgia, *"How's the serenity?"* as Darryl Kerrigan of [The Castle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/?ref_=tt_ch) would put it. So, from that, marking things with MoonHappy emblazoned on them, simply gives me a nice reminder of something that was truely joyful in my life.

I have since registered the domain [moonhappy.io](moonhappy.io), including this [blog](blog.moonhappy,io), and the GitHub organisation [https://github.com/moonhappy](https://github.com/moonhappy) with this same adornment of MoonHappy.

That is all 🙂