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Long-term Sun Almanac - Awk Version
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2000 Dec 09, 11:53 AM
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2000 Dec 09, 11:53 AM
Here is an Awk version of a long-term Sun almanac. Awk is available at Brian Kernighan's website: http://inferno.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html --- # s2k.awk - Sun 2000 from Meeus Astronomical Algorithms # s2k is Copyright Daniel K. Allen, 2000. # All rights reserved. # # 6 Dec 2000 - Created by Dan Allen. # # Usage: awk -f s2k.awk mm.ddyyyy hh:mm:ss # BEGIN { # all arguments and results are in decimal degrees CONVFMT = OFMT = "%10.6f" PI = 4*atan2(1,1) D2R = PI/180 R2D = 180/PI if (lat == "") lat = 47.4807666667 if (lon == "") lon = 121.797433333 if (tz == "") tz = 8 t = J2000(ARGV[1],ARGV[2] ? ARGV[2] : 12) l = Mod(280.46645 + 36000.76983*t + 0.0003032*t*t,360) m = Mod(357.5291 + 35999.0503*t + -0.0001559*t*t + -0.00000048*t*t*t,360) e = (0.016708617 + -0.000042037*t + -0.0000001236*t*t) c = (1.9146 + -0.004817*t + -0.000014*t*t) * Sin(m) c += (0.019993 + -0.000101*t) * Sin(m*2) c += (0.00029) * Sin(m*3) sunLong = l + c ecc = (84381.448 + -46.815*t - 0.00059*t*t + 0.001813*t*t*t) / 3600 ra = Mod(ATan2(Cos(ecc)*Sin(sunLong),Cos(sunLong)),360) dec = ASin(Sin(ecc)*Sin(sunLong)) gst = (280.46061837 + 0.000387933*t*t + -2.58331180573E-8*t*t*t) gst += t*36525*360.985647366 gst = Mod(gst,360) lha = gst - lon - ra alt = ASin(Sin(lat) * Sin(dec) + Cos(lat) * Cos(dec) * Cos(lha)) az = 180 + ATan(Sin(lha) / (Cos(lha) * Sin(lat) - Cos(lat)*Tan(dec))) print " RA:",ra," Dec:",dec print " AZ:",az," Alt:",alt } function Floor(x) { return x < 0 ? int(x) - 1 : int(x) } function Mod(x,y) { return x - y * Floor(x/y) } function Sin(x) { return sin(x*D2R) } function Cos(x) { return cos(x*D2R) } function Tan(x) { return Sin(x)/Cos(x) } function ASin(x) { return atan2(x,sqrt(1 - x * x))*R2D } function ATan(x) { return atan2(x,1)*R2D } function ATan2(y,x){ return atan2(y,x)*R2D } function J2000(date,time, m,d,y,a) { if (index(date,"/") > 0) { # mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy - Y2K compatible split(date,a,"/") m = a[1] d = a[2] y = a[3] < 50 ? 2000 + a[3] : a[3] < 100 ? 1900 + a[3] : a[3] delete a } else { # mm.ddyyyy - HP calculator compatible m = int(date) d = int((date - m)*100) y = int(1000000*(date - int(date) - d/100)+0.5) } split(time,a,":") print "Time:",y,m,d,a[1],a[2],a[3]," TZ:",tz print " Lon:",lon," Lat:",lat return (Julian(y,m,d,a[1]+tz,a[2],a[3]) - Julian(2000,1,1,12,0,0))/36525 } function Julian(year,month,day,hr,min,sec, m,y,t,jd) { if (month <= 2) { y = year - 1; m = month + 12 } else { y = year; m = month } if (year < 1582) t = -2 else if (year == 1582 && (month < 10 || month == 10 && day <= 4)) t = -2 else t = int(y/400) - int(y/100) jd = int(365.25*y) + int(30.6001*(m+1)) + t + 1720996.5 + day jd += hr/24.0 + min/(24.0*60) + sec/(24.0*3600) return jd }