One Day Meeting 21st September 2013 Newbury (UK) BSS Meeting

2013-09-04 Thread david . pawley
Notice of the British Sundial Society One Day Meeting Near Newbury. UK. Details of the meeting are on the BSS Website www.sundialsoc.org.uk www.sundialsoc.org.uk Newbury BSS Meeting 2013 on a Special Date. This years Newbury BSS Meeting is on a Special Date being the Autumn Equinox -

sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Seaman
Hi, I'm looking for an (open source) unix/linux command line tool that calculates sunrise/sunset and civil/nautical/astronomical twilights for a particular location and date. This will be used in a unix shell script so needs to be something I can install on the machine in question. Could be

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Richard B. Langley
Hi Rob: Found the attached file in the archives on my computer. Can't vouch for accuracy. There is also the PyEphem Python suite, which can probably compute the required quantities from a command line call. I'll check, if you like. -- Richard SOFTWARE.SUNRISE.SUNSET.TWO Description: Binary

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Richard B. Langley
It seems that PyEphem can also do the job: http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/rise-set.html#naval-observatory-risings-and-settings -- Richard On Wednesday, September 4, 2013,247, at 10:11 AM, Rob Seaman wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an (open source) unix/linux command line tool that calculates

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Tony Finch
Rob Seaman sea...@noao.edu wrote: I'm looking for an (open source) unix/linux command line tool that calculates sunrise/sunset and civil/nautical/astronomical twilights for a particular location and date. http://risacher.org/sunwait/ Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Seaman
On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Richard B. Langley l...@unb.ca wrote: http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/rise-set.html#naval-observatory-risings-and-settings On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: http://risacher.org/sunwait/ These both look like good candidates. I'll read the

Re: Another building reflection of sun fries eggs

2013-09-04 Thread David
There's a notable absence in these reports of the words 'concave', 'mirror', 'focus' and 'infra-red'. What happened to elementary science and (architecture!) education? David Brown Somerset UK On 04/09/2013 02:05, Dave Bell wrote: Aaarrgh! ...the building's shape */magnified/* the Sun's

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Richard B. Langley
Result from USNO website with coordinates entered to nearest minute (all that's allowable) Wednesday 4 September 2013 Universal Time - 4h SUN Begin civil twilight 06:28 Sunrise

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Seaman
And the winners are: Pyephem turns out to be layered on Elwood Downey's Xephem - can't go wrong there! However, rather than the usual python package management minuet, sunwait is an old-school software tool - just compile and run giving all the numbers I asked for with one command: %

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ? TZM

2013-09-04 Thread David Patte ₯
A good chance for me to plug my Free Windows App (Time Zone Master) from relativedata.com, which gives Sunrise6:54 CLT Transit12:42:06 CLT Sunset 18:29 CLT Moonrise5:05 CLT Transit11:59:33 CLT Moonset 17:57 CLT Also has local mean and apparent time, phase times and season

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
for my coordinates 52.30N 4.85E sumwait gives the times using the Western European time. However on the continent for this longitude the Central European time is used. At 17:49 4-9-2013, Rob Seaman wrote: And the winners are: Pyephem turns out to be layered on Elwood Downey's Xephem - can't

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Bell
how about altitude - CTIO shows as 2200 meters... Sent from my iPad On Sep 4, 2013, at 8:49 AM, Rob Seaman sea...@noao.edu wrote: And the winners are: Pyephem turns out to be layered on Elwood Downey's Xephem - can't go wrong there! However, rather than the usual python package

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Seaman
On Sep 4, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Dave Bell db...@thebells.net wrote: how about altitude - CTIO shows as 2200 meters… I emailed Richard but didn't cc the list: On Sep 4, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Rob Seaman sea...@noao.edu wrote: Hi Richard, Pretty close. Haven't worried about altitude or refraction