GitHub - kevinchiu/sunpath: Sun path calculations

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Calculates the appearance of a solar traversal given a location on the Earth. Used as input for the Living Windows static lightfield project.

usage:

python sunpath.py Month Day Timezone Lat Lon
example:
python sunpath.py 7 4 EDT 42 89

Sun paths:
http://www.alternativephotography.com/articles/art108.html
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/21/article-1088227-028C40CF000005DC-543_468x293_popup.jpg

Sun position formula to invert for raster scan:
http://www.astro.uio.no/~bgranslo/aares/calculate.html

another formula:
http://squ1.org/wiki/Solar_Position_Calculator#Manual