// Make a big table to plot the position of the sun over a whole year. // This also finds the moment of sunrise and sunset for each day. // This function illustrates iterating over times and lots of different // types of date/time math. use sun.frink tz = "Mountain" temp = F[55] start = beginningOfYear[now[]] end = beginningOfYearPlus[now[], 1] lat = 39.58560 degrees North long = 104.89598 degrees West tzf = ### MM-dd HH:mm:ss ### // Step through each day in year for date = start to end step day { // Output time of sunrise sunrise = sunrise[date, lat, long, temp] sunset = sunset[date, lat, long, temp] [azimuth, altitude] = refractedSunAzimuthAltitude[sunrise, lat, long, temp] printOutput[sunrise, azimuth, altitude, tz, tzf] // Find the beginning of the next hour after sunrise. start = beginningOfHourPlus[sunrise, 1] // Step through an hour each day. for time = start to sunset step 1 hour { [azimuth, altitude] = refractedSunAzimuthAltitude[time, lat, long, temp] printOutput[time, azimuth, altitude, tz, tzf] } // Output time of sunset [azimuth, altitude] = refractedSunAzimuthAltitude[sunset, lat, long, temp] printOutput[sunset, azimuth, altitude, tz, tzf] } printOutput[date, azimuth, altitude, tz, tzf] := { println[format[JD[date], day, 5] + "\t" + (date->[tzf, tz]) + "\t" + format[(azimuth + 180 degree) mod circle, degree, 6] + "\t" + format[altitude, degree, 6]] }