B4A Library SunCalc B4XLib

SunCalc is a tiny BSD-licensed library originally written in JavaScript for calculating sun position, sunlight phases (times for sunrise, sunset, dusk, etc.), moon position and lunar phase for the given location and time, created by Vladimir Agafonkin (@mourner) as a part of the SunCalc.net project. This is my conversion to B4X of that project. Please see spoiler for license

Spoiler: License

SunCalc-B4X Is ported from suncalc.js under the BSD-2-Clause license.
Copyright (c) 2014, Vladimir Agafonkin
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SunCalc​

• Classes​

  • SunCalc

• • SunCalc​

    Functions:​

    • addTime (angle As Double, riseName As String, setName As String)
      Allows additional Rise/Set angles to be added
    • Initialize
      Initializes the object.
    • MoonCoords (date As Double) As Object
      Geocentric ecliptic coordinates of the moon
      Returns Right ascension, declination & distance
    • MoonIllumination (date As Double) As Object
      Illumination of the moon on given date
      Returns Fraction, phase & angle
    • MoonPosition (date As Double, lat As Double, lng As Double) As Object
      Position of the moon at a given date viewed from lat / lon
      Returns azimuth, altitude, distance & parallacticAngle
    • SunPosition (date As Double, lng As Double, lat As Double) As Object
      Returns the Azimuth & altitude of the sun at the selected date, lat & lon
    • TimesList (date As Long, lat As Double, lng As Double) As Object
      Returns a list of Rise/Set times.
      Sunrise / sunset (The moment the sun starts to appear / vanishes)
      Sunrise End / Sunset Start (the moment the sun completely appears / starts to vanish)
      Dawn / Dusk (First light can be detected / last light is lost)
      Nautical Dawn / Nautical Dusk (as above, adjusted for being at sea)
      Night End / Night (Hours of night)
      Golden Hour / Blue Hour (Half way point between times of best light)

• Converted By: John Naylor​

• Version: 1.00​

 

[AnandGupta]

Will request to add some screen-shots.

 

[Alexander Stolte]

Will request to add some screen-shots.

its not a view

 

[John Naylor]

Will request to add some screen-shots.

There's nothing to really see but I'm happy to do a little demo app.

Everything that's returned from the functions are just lists with relevant data in them.

 

[John Naylor]

Will request to add some screen-shots.

Result for TimesList for Lat 53, Lng -2.9 (Liverpool where I live) and time 1643252254029 in ticks obvs.