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Can predict elevation; how about azimuth too?

Open jidanni opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

In ephem/doc/*.rst we see we can adjust *.horizon to figure out when the e.g., Sun will reach a given elevation.

Perhaps add an example of how to figure out when the Sun will cross a certain azimuth.

Yes, transit will find it for the current meridian. But that is just a special north south case of a more general case. Please add examples.

jidanni avatar May 15 '21 23:05 jidanni

(I’ve been leaving this issue open in case any contributors have time to either write up a general-purpose guide to how to find astronomical circumstances, using maybe bisection, or Newton’s Method, or else decide to try tackling your specific case and writing an azimuth-finder for you. As we have only been hearing crickets, it may be that we have no volunteers who are interested. We can keep the issue open for a bit while longer to see, though!)

brandon-rhodes avatar Nov 23 '21 16:11 brandon-rhodes

I'm interested, but it may not get to the top of my queue.

drbitboy avatar Nov 23 '21 20:11 drbitboy