+1 it would be useful In particular when planning drone flights users often want solar noon, not whatever local time is. It's also a good reference for lots of other analysis.
As Chris mentioned there may be python libraries out there that just need a QGIS interface. Thanks, Alex On 6/27/19 13:47, Christian Yrrman wrote: > Hi Calvin. > > did you have look at the python library "pvlib"? It's a library for > photovoltaic modelling and does contain solar positions. Not sure about > lunar positions though. > > https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#solar-position > > Best > > > Chris > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:15 PM C Hamilton <adenacult...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> How much interested would there be for a plugin to display sunrise and >> sunset information for a particular location on the earth's surface. Is >> anyone already working on this? There doesn't seem to be a capability for >> this, but perhaps I have missed it. Are there other astronomical >> calculations that would be worth while in QGIS? (Moon asimuth/position, >> phase) >> >> I a trying to get a sense of interest and also make sure I am not >> duplicating a capability someone is already working on. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Calvin >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
