Solar culmination and equation of time Calculator
Calculates a table of changes in the solar culmination and equation of time for a year and draws the chart. | |||
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| ・The factors which equation of time produces are the Earth's orbital eccentricity and axial tilt. ・equation of time ＝ mean solar time − apparent solar time ＝(time zone - longitude/15)＋12h− solar culmination ・If the longitude of the standard time is specified, the mean solar time will become noon. |
Solar culmination and equation of time
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- Purpose of use
- Will be useful for helping people determine true north with only a watch and a noontime shadow.
- Comment/Request
- Thank you very much for making this great tool available; quite marvelous!
Previous poster might wish to check out MICA, the Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac for comparisons; http://aa.usno.navy.mil/software/mica/micainfo.php - this is the tool I've used in the past to create my own ET tables and other data tables for surveying programs.
[1] 2018/11/19 21:23 Male / 60 years old level or over / A retired person / Very /
- Purpose of use
- To verify equation of time matches my own calculations as an amateur astronomer.
- Comment/Request
- Questionable accuracy?! Im not saying my calculations are more accurate - they are probably worse. I just have no way of verifying your own results. You provide no relevant external links, equations, or discussion on methods. I cannot verify or falsify any of this except to gather equally baseless numbers from a multitude of sites, none of which are ever consistent with one another.
[2] 2018/11/17 05:14 Male / 30 years old level / High-school/ University/ Grad student / A little /
- Purpose of use
- looking for formula.
[3] 2018/09/14 21:05 Male / 60 years old level or over / A retired person / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- Test case for an embedded Eqn of Time calculation
[4] 2018/08/10 04:52 Male / 60 years old level or over / An engineer / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- Correction of sunrise times observed on VLF radio waves propagation along a whole year.
[5] 2018/08/06 02:49 Male / 60 years old level or over / An engineer / Very /
- Purpose of use
- A study on the times of the five daily Muslim prayers.
- Comment/Request
- I am wondering if the times of solar culmination are the same as solar meridian crossing. In Islam, the prayer time for Dhuhr (noon prayer) is after the sun has passed its highest elevation, or istiwa.
Please clarify if the highest elevation of the sun for the day is culmination or meridian crossing.
[6] 2018/03/23 18:58 Male / 60 years old level or over / A retired people / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- Planning sundial observations.
- Comment/Request
- Thanks - really helpful!
[7] 2018/03/11 05:30 Female / Under 20 years old / Elementary school/ Junior high-school student / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Someone asserted that December 24th was the "longest day of the year." He was unable to clarify further. The standard explanation for the longest day of the year is most hours of sunlight. An alternative definition is least time between transits (culmination) of the apparent sun. This is simply the time difference between successive transits, which turns out to be smallest - 21.48 seconds less than 24 hours- by the precision offered, between the transits of September 17 and 18, and longest, 29.82 seconds longer than 24 hours, between the transits of December 22 and 23. So by this definition, one might consider December 23 to be the longest day of the year.
- Comment/Request
- Thank you so much!
[8] 2018/01/17 04:48 Male / 60 years old level or over / An engineer / Very /
- Purpose of use
- To orient a sun dial at true noon and to obtain the relevant equation of time for my longitude
- Comment/Request
- Excellent resource
[9] 2017/06/26 14:41 Male / 60 years old level or over / A retired people / Very /
- Purpose of use
- To illustrate WHY the Islamic prayer times vary across the year as they do.
- Comment/Request
- Awesome.
[10] 2017/04/10 14:34 Male / 50 years old level / A teacher / A researcher / Useful /
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