Information on Service ' Astronomical Calendar: Sun and Moon Ephemerides and Twilight
Calculator'
Further access options are discussed below
The Astronomical Calendar is a software package for automated
calculations of the celestial coordinates (ephemerides) of the Sun and
Moon. It computes the times of sunrise and sunset, the boundaries of
civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight, and lunar phases, based on
the geographic coordinates of the observing site and its time zone. A
web-based implementation is hosted at the Fesenkov Astrophysical
Institute and is available in Kazakh, Russian, and English. The
service allows users to obtain ephemerides for any location on Earth
and export results as tables (including PDF output). The Astronomical
Calendar is widely used for planning observations with robotic
telescopes and for estimating natural illumination conditions. The web
page of the Astronomical Calendar is available at:
https://fai.kz/calendar/calendar_eng.php
For a list of all services and tables belonging to this service's
resource, see Information on resource ' Astronomical Calendar: Sun and Moon Ephemerides and Twilight
Calculator'
Overview
You can access this service using:
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external --
a renderer with some custom access method that should be mentioned in the service description
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form --
an interface for web browsers through an HTML form
This service is published as follows:
- Within the
set(s) ivo_managed,local with the renderer
external
- Within the
set(s) local with the renderer
form
local means it is listed on our front page,
ivo_managed means
it has a record in the VO registry.
VOResource XML (that's something exclusively for VO nerds)