Sunrise Calculator

by Merlin

Sunrise Calculator computes and displays the times of sunrise and sunset, given a latitude, a longitude and a date.

The Widget can make allowances for altitudes of up to 15,240 metres (50,000 feet). The altitude compensation calculation, performed by the Widget, is not part of the published algorithm, on which the main calculation is based, and should be treated with caution.

This new version also computes and displays the times of moonrise and moonset.
Current Version: 1.8

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  1. Dutchman
    February 17, 2006 · version 1.0.1 Dutchman
    I just tryed it out by using google earth to find my house and pulling the lat/long from that. I was going to add the comment about altitude too...but somebody else already considered that. Interested in altitude ranges from Death Valley to Everest. Then If I time it and notice a difference, I know what difference my local terrian makes - even more useful information. Nifty little widget, become like Caine from Kung-Fu and watch the sun rise every morning. It is time for me me to go, you pebble snatcher!

  2. Harry Whitfield
    February 17, 2006 · version 1.0.1 Harry Whitfield
    Michel, from Tours: Disregard my last entry which was based on information gleaned from the web. The variation in sunrise/sunset times with altitude depends on a number of factors including latitude. At an altitude of 1000m, you see about 1 degree further, which at the equator would make a change of 4 minutes to sunset and sunrise times. At 51 30 N (London), it currently gives a change of nearly 7 minutes. At the summit of Everest, the change would be 3 degrees, and at the summit of the Matterho More

  3. Harry Whitfield
    February 17, 2006 · version 1.0.1 Harry Whitfield
    The adjustment you need is less than 1 minute in time per 1500m in height. That's about 6 minutes on the summit of Everest, 3 minutes on the Matterhorn and insignificant for most of us who are earthbound.

  4. Michel, from Tours
    February 16, 2006 · version 1.0.1 Michel, from Tours
    There's a third parameter, missing: local altitude. Otherwise, one of those widgets I like to have around. Nice.

  5. Harry Whitfield
    February 16, 2006 · version 1.0.1 Harry Whitfield
    I've just tested it with Latitude:53 32 57 N and Longitude:9 59 31 E for today 2006/02/16 and it gives 06:37:42/16:31:42 UTC times. If you set Timezone Offset = 1 (hour) it says 07:37:42/17:31:42. In what way is that not working?
    Note that it requires E/W and N/S (not O).

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