sunriseset

DESCRIPTION:

SunRiseSet is a ruby class calculates the times of the sunrise, solar noon and sunset. It also calculates astronomical, naval and civil twilight times.

Not sure of the origin of the algorithm. I have seen a fortran version http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/program.txt a .pl www.mso.anu.edu.au/~brian/grbs/astrosubs.pl and .vb versions for spreadsheets too. All had the same comments, so are of a common origin.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

SYNOPSIS:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sunriseset'

latitude = -36.991
longitude = 174.487
vc = SunRiseSet.today(latitude,longitude) #Alternately vc = SunRiseSet.now(latitude,longitude)
#Or for a Given DateTime
vc = SunRiseSet.new(DateTime.now, latitude,longitude)
vc.to_s #or access individual attributes and use DateTime#strftime to format appropriately

REQUIREMENTS:

  • require 'rubygems'
  • require 'date'

INSTALL:

  • sudo gem install versioncheck

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013

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