#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright © 2014 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org) # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU Affero General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # This module implements algorithms for calculating information about the Sun. from solar_python import * def sun(latitude, longitude, t = None, low = -6.0, high = 3.0): ''' Get the visibility of the Sun @param latitude:float The latitude component of your GPS coordinate @param longitude:float The longitude component of your GPS coordinate @param t:float? The time in Julian Centuries, `None` for current time @param low:float The 100 % night limit elevation of the Sun (highest when not visible) @param high:float The 100 % day limit elevation of the Sun (lowest while fully visible) @return :float The visibilty of the Sun, 0 during the night, 1 during the day, between 0 and 1 during twilight. Other values will not occur ''' t = julian_centuries() if t is None else t e = solar_elevation(latitude, longitude, t) e = (e - low) / (high - low) return min(max(0, e), 1) def ptime(t): ''' Print a time stamp in human-readable local time This function is intended for testing @param t The time stamp in Julian Centuries ''' import datetime print(str(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(julian_centuries_to_epoch(t)))))