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Find sunrise, sunset and duration of sunlight at a given point. Haven't verified this works.
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import ephem | |
import datetime | |
basedate = datetime.datetime.strptime("2018-01-01", "%Y-%m-%d") | |
target = ephem.Observer() | |
target.lat = "38.6247" | |
target.long = "-90.185" | |
target.elevation = 142 #meters | |
sun = ephem.Sun() | |
print("date\trise\tset\tseconds") | |
for deltadays in range (0, 800): | |
thisdate = basedate + datetime.timedelta(days=deltadays) | |
datetext = thisdate.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") | |
ephemtext = thisdate.strftime("%Y/%m/%d") | |
rising = ephem.localtime(target.next_rising(sun, start=ephemtext)) | |
setting = ephem.localtime(target.next_setting(sun, start=ephemtext)) | |
sunlight = (setting-rising).seconds | |
print(datetext + "\t" + str(rising) + "\t" + str(setting) + "\t" + str(sunlight)) |
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