Sun angle azimuth tables?

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Just googled it no idea if it works properly
 
bimmerphile said:

ESRL Global Monitoring Division - Global Radiation Group

The NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory was formed to observe and understand the Earth system and to develop products, through a commitment to research that will advance the National Oceanic and Atmopsheric Administration's environmental information and services on global to local scales.
www.esrl.noaa.gov
Just googled it no idea if it works properly
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Thanks. I saw this. In the Navy site you were able to type in the city and it listed the sun angle in degrees by time of the day/night.
 
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Oxman said:
Thanks. I saw this. In the Navy site you were able to type in the city and it listed the sun angle in degrees by time. of the day/night
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Oh, I remember... it was super convenient. Wonder what happened? Have you emailed the USNO to see if it's temporary?
 
Would something like this help?

staratlas.com

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Choose your location, use the fastforward/rewind buttons to get your sunrise/sunset, click on the Sun for it's altitude and azimuth.
 
mechan9 said:
Would something like this help?

staratlas.com

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A grand strategy game of space exploration, territorial conquest, political domination, and living among the stars.
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Choose your location, use the fastforward/rewind buttons to get your sunrise/sunset, click on the Sun for it's altitude and azimuth.
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Thanks. But not what I'm looking for. I am looking for a chart that gives sun angle with the coresponding times.
 
Oxman said:
Thanks. I saw this. In the Navy site you were able to type in the city and it listed the sun angle in degrees by time of the day/night.
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The Navy solar calc has been redacted for security purposes per the Patriot Act. Lol. Does anyone remember the good ol' days when FUBAR but publicly-known stuff like the Patriot Act were our main worries?? Ah, the good ol' days.
 
Crop Duster said:
The Navy solar calc has been redacted for security purposes per the Patriot Act. Lol. Does anyone remember the good ol' days when FUBAR but publicly-known stuff like the Patriot Act were our main worries?? Ah, the good ol' days.
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If you run Android, I used the "Sun Position" app by cxcxcxcx (not a typo) as a backup source for the Navy site while I was doing survey. Interface was a little clunky but still usable.
 
EAD said:
If you run Android, I used the "Sun Position" app by cxcxcxcx (not a typo) as a backup source for the Navy site while I was doing survey. Interface was a little clunky but still usable.
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That is a good back up. I could work with that. Thanks.
 
Derg said:
We get some of that stuff on our flight plans, but I’ve never found a good use for it.

What say you, @PeanuckleCRJ ?
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Only way I’ve known to use it is if you’re running a dead reckoning plot, but that means you’re using a paper chart on a chart table and you’re regularly doing your DR plots and doing sightings periodically. Things that are easy to do when you’re on a ship, but I don’t know of any airliners these days that have the space to do it. Though over the last 20 years they probably have come up with “new” methods of doing celestial navigation on those new fangled electronic charts.
 
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