[Radiance-general] sun positions as calculated by gensky

John Mardaljevic jm at dmu.ac.uk
Wed Jun 18 04:07:55 PDT 2008


> You are entering the time with a decimal point

Duh!  Thanks for spotting that Santiago.  Mind you, I'm still a little  
flummoxed: a difference of 12mins would give (I believe) a  
displacement in azimuth of, at most, 3deg. So, why is it 6deg?
jm/duke 44% gensky 6 21 5.30GMT +s -a 1.25 -o -103.75 | grep azi
gensky: warning: -6.9 hours btwn. standard meridian and longitude
# Solar altitude and azimuth: 67.6 173.0
jm/duke 45% gensky 6 21 5.50GMT +s -a 1.25 -o -103.75 | grep azi
gensky: warning: -6.9 hours btwn. standard meridian and longitude
# Solar altitude and azimuth: 67.1 166.0
-John
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