solar function

Calculate solar postion parameters

Pre-calculates astronomical solar position components for Earth-location sampling functions.

solar(day)

Arguments

• day: vector of date-time values

Returns

A list of the following values for each input time: - solarTime: solar time

• sinSolarDec: sine solar declination

• cosSolarDec: cosine solar declination

References

https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/azel.html

Author(s)

Michael D. Sumner

Note

No account is made for horizon refraction, but this was available in the original (Javascript) code.