Comments on: Exact Sunrise/Sunset Times for Pilots and Photographers http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/ Web site and blog for Maria Langer, freelance writer, commercial helicopter pilot, and serious amateur photographer. Thu, 24 May 2012 16:44:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: michael http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-3576 michael Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:13:45 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-3576 I've made some changes to the script and moved it (as I had it in a directory that I had disallowed indexing by search engines) it's now here, but you can still click the above address and get to it too. http://pdxvr.com/ical_sun.php I’ve made some changes to the script and moved it (as I had it in a directory that I had disallowed indexing by search engines)

it’s now here, but you can still click the above address and get to it too.
http://pdxvr.com/ical_sun.php

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2244 Maria Langer Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:07:32 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2244 Michael: Thanks for this. I'm sure someone here will give this a try. I just want to remind everyone of two things: 1) There ARE other solutions on the Web, including Web sites that can do all the sunrise/sunset calculations for you. 2) I cannot be held responsible for any problems resulting from using software linked to in this blog or its comments. Michael: Thanks for this. I’m sure someone here will give this a try.

I just want to remind everyone of two things:
1) There ARE other solutions on the Web, including Web sites that can do all the sunrise/sunset calculations for you.
2) I cannot be held responsible for any problems resulting from using software linked to in this blog or its comments.

]]> By: michael http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2243 michael Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:58:46 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2243 Well I'm more of a geek, I just wrote a php script that will generate a whole year of ical sunrise and sunset events for any lat/lon and time zone. http://pdxvr.com/other/ical_sun.php I did no verification or sanitizing routines and put it up there raw and barely tested, I'm relying on you all to test it. After I post this, I'll change it so you can specify a date range instead of just a full year. Well I’m more of a geek, I just wrote a php script that will generate a whole year of ical sunrise and sunset events for any lat/lon and time zone.

http://pdxvr.com/other/ical_sun.php

I did no verification or sanitizing routines and put it up there raw and barely tested, I’m relying on you all to test it.

After I post this, I’ll change it so you can specify a date range instead of just a full year.

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2242 Maria Langer Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:15:53 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2242 Joseph: The software solution I came up with is completely incompatible with the current version of iCal, so I didn't bother generating the tables for 2010. Instead, I used a Mac application called Sunrise Sunset, which generates the iCal info for the GPS coordinates you enter. I can't remember where I got it from, but I do recall that it's free. If you're a Mac user, I recommend it. If you're not, well, I can't help you. Sorry! Joseph: The software solution I came up with is completely incompatible with the current version of iCal, so I didn’t bother generating the tables for 2010. Instead, I used a Mac application called Sunrise Sunset, which generates the iCal info for the GPS coordinates you enter. I can’t remember where I got it from, but I do recall that it’s free. If you’re a Mac user, I recommend it. If you’re not, well, I can’t help you. Sorry!

]]> By: Joseph McAllister http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2241 Joseph McAllister Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:59:30 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2241 A total lack of any mention of 2010 so leads me to believe that you have given up on this project. Is there one of the other google searched sites that can do the job with reasonable accuracy that you could recommend? A total lack of any mention of 2010 so leads me to believe that you have given up on this project.

Is there one of the other google searched sites that can do the job with reasonable accuracy that you could recommend?

]]> By: Richard http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2240 Richard Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:07:53 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2240 maria, thank you for this. actor here in new york city. like to have it in my iCal for exercise and roof gardening in between acting gigs.... will donate to coffee fund when i have funds. maria, thank you for this. actor here in new york city. like to have it in my iCal for exercise and roof gardening in between acting gigs…. will donate to coffee fund when i have funds.

]]> By: Mark http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2239 Mark Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:19:55 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2239 Hi there, I'm not sure if you are sill doing this, or maybe preparing for next year's batch, but I have so far failed to find anyone else who can do this. I am recovering from a stroke and part of my rehab, in fact the part that has been most useful, is early morning walks. I would love to be able to combine these walks with sunrise. If there is any chance of this at all I would be most grateful. If you could let me know and I would be more than happy to add to your fund for wake up juice. My thanks either way, you have done people a great service and hopefully I can be another. Portsmouth, UK (although Southampton is the nearest airport city) - GMT Hi there, I’m not sure if you are sill doing this, or maybe preparing for next year’s batch, but I have so far failed to find anyone else who can do this. I am recovering from a stroke and part of my rehab, in fact the part that has been most useful, is early morning walks. I would love to be able to combine these walks with sunrise. If there is any chance of this at all I would be most grateful. If you could let me know and I would be more than happy to add to your fund for wake up juice. My thanks either way, you have done people a great service and hopefully I can be another.

Portsmouth, UK (although Southampton is the nearest airport city) – GMT

]]> By: Alex http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2238 Alex Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:17:12 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2238 Rome (Italy) GMT+1 I need it for my job, nature photographer Rome (Italy)

GMT+1

I need it for my job, nature photographer

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2237 Maria Langer Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:29:42 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2237 Joseph: Thanks for all your comments. But you really do need to check over what you enter BEFORE submitting them. Either that or be prepared for duplicate comments. There's nothing you can do to help. The long and tedious part is creating the data files, which is done with a software application called Time Palette. Joseph: Thanks for all your comments. But you really do need to check over what you enter BEFORE submitting them. Either that or be prepared for duplicate comments.

There’s nothing you can do to help. The long and tedious part is creating the data files, which is done with a software application called Time Palette.

]]> By: Joseph McAllister http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2236 Joseph McAllister Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:48:52 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2236 Corrected version, Maria : Sorry for the confusion about the term €œuniversal€. I guess I was referring to your wish to figure out a way to plug in a set of coordinates and have your Mac crank out an .ics file that fit. It would be nice to be able to do. And once you got it working, you could just sell the script, and those who had FileMaker (Bento maybe) could pay you a fee for it's use and crank out their own, saving you time and hassle. After this past year, I'll bet you get many requests for .ics files for 2010. So, if there is any way I could help you with some scripting, FileMaker work, or whatever, let me know. I'd be willing to put some time in seeing what can be developed. Getting the raw data for a coordinate takes only a few seconds at the Naval Observatory. It's the parsing of that file into a database, and getting the database to spit out an .ics file that is the problem. A local here in the NorthWest has developed something that will spit out an .ics file from a set of coords, but it comes out wrong timewise. So I can see the .ics format is text, and pretty simple. Let me know what if anything there is you'd like me to do on my 24€³ iMac, Macbook, or any of the other various Macs sitting around the house. Got rid of the Apple ][s and the gs. By the way, my father's family had a dairy on 80 acres in Glendale, N. 84th if I recall, and I spent some time there in my youth (67 and retired now). It a subdivision today. My first ex-wife Susan lives out in Wadell nowadays. Small world. Joe 425-512-0362 Corrected version, Maria :

Sorry for the confusion about the term €œuniversal€. I guess I was referring to your wish to figure out a way to plug in a set of coordinates and have your Mac crank out an .ics file that fit. It would be nice to be able to do. And once you got it working, you could just sell the script, and those who had FileMaker (Bento maybe) could pay you a fee for it’s use and crank out their own, saving you time and hassle. After this past year, I’ll bet you get many requests for .ics files for 2010.

So, if there is any way I could help you with some scripting, FileMaker work, or whatever, let me know. I’d be willing to put some time in seeing what can be developed. Getting the raw data for a coordinate takes only a few seconds at the Naval Observatory. It’s the parsing of that file into a database, and getting the database to spit out an .ics file that is the problem. A local here in the NorthWest has developed something that will spit out an .ics file from a set of coords, but it comes out wrong timewise. So I can see the .ics format is text, and pretty simple. Let me know what if anything there is you’d like me to do on my 24€³ iMac, Macbook, or any of the other various Macs sitting around the house. Got rid of the Apple ][s and the gs.

By the way, my father’s family had a dairy on 80 acres in Glendale, N. 84th if I recall, and I spent some time there in my youth (67 and retired now). It a subdivision today.

My first ex-wife Susan lives out in Wadell nowadays. Small world.

Joe

425-512-0362

]]> By: Joseph McAllister http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2235 Joseph McAllister Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:42:17 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2235 Sorry for the confusion about the term "universal". I guess I was referring to your wish to figure out a way to plug in a set of coordinates and have your Mac crank out an .ics file that fit. It would be nice to be able to do. And once you got it working, you could just sell the script, and those who had FileMaker (Bento maybe) could pay you a fee for it's use and crank out their own, saving you time and hassle. After this past year <I'll bet you get many requests for .ics files for 2010. So, if there is any way I could help you with some scripting, FileMaker work, or whatever, let me know. I'd be willing to put some time in seeing what can be developed. Getting the raw data for a coordinate takes only a few seconds at the Naval Observatory. It's the parsing of that file into a database, and getting the database to spit out an .ics file that is the problem. A local here in the NorthWest has developed something that will spit out an .ics file from a set of coords, but it comes out wrong timewise. So I can see the .ics format is text, and pretty simple. Let me know what if there is anything you'd like to do on my 24" iMac, Macbook, or any of the other various Macs sitting around the house. Got rid of the Apple ][s and the gs. By the way, my father's family was situated in Glendale, N. 84th if I recall, and I spent some time there in my youth (67 and retired now) and my first ex-wife Susan lives out in Wadell nowadays. Small world. Joe 425-512-0362 Sorry for the confusion about the term “universal”. I guess I was referring to your wish to figure out a way to plug in a set of coordinates and have your Mac crank out an .ics file that fit. It would be nice to be able to do. And once you got it working, you could just sell the script, and those who had FileMaker (Bento maybe) could pay you a fee for it’s use and crank out their own, saving you time and hassle. After this past year <I’ll bet you get many requests for .ics files for 2010.

So, if there is any way I could help you with some scripting, FileMaker work, or whatever, let me know. I’d be willing to put some time in seeing what can be developed. Getting the raw data for a coordinate takes only a few seconds at the Naval Observatory. It’s the parsing of that file into a database, and getting the database to spit out an .ics file that is the problem. A local here in the NorthWest has developed something that will spit out an .ics file from a set of coords, but it comes out wrong timewise. So I can see the .ics format is text, and pretty simple. Let me know what if there is anything you’d like to do on my 24″ iMac, Macbook, or any of the other various Macs sitting around the house. Got rid of the Apple ][s and the gs.

By the way, my father’s family was situated in Glendale, N. 84th if I recall, and I spent some time there in my youth (67 and retired now) and my first ex-wife Susan lives out in Wadell nowadays. Small world.

Joe

425-512-0362

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2234 Maria Langer Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:06:46 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2234 Joseph: Not sure what you mean about "universal version." It's a long and tedious task to create the sunrise/sunset calendars. If I could figure out a way to fully automate the process, I certainly would. And I don't understand how a "universal version" is possible; sunrise/sunset times change based on location and there's an almost infinite number of locations on our planet. Glad you found a calendar that's helpful to you, though. Joseph: Not sure what you mean about “universal version.” It’s a long and tedious task to create the sunrise/sunset calendars. If I could figure out a way to fully automate the process, I certainly would. And I don’t understand how a “universal version” is possible; sunrise/sunset times change based on location and there’s an almost infinite number of locations on our planet.

Glad you found a calendar that’s helpful to you, though.

]]> By: Joseph McAllister http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2233 Joseph McAllister Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:01:04 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2233 I was overjoyed to find you iCal Sunrise & Sunset .ics file for somewhere close to my location in Everett, WA (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112810699350554635429.000454b24420b947e9f47&ll=47.989749,-122.199168&spn=0,359.975109&t=p&z=15&layer=c&cbll=47.989739,-122.199181&panoid=qiYJa03m_vwzYQpzjzzflw&cbp=12,7.2,,0,5) which is pretty close to 47.99, -122.2. So I can get an approximate time into my iCal. As a photographer (not just dogs) I really depend on it from time to time. Thank you for your efforts on our behalf€¦ Let me know how you are coming on the universal version for next year. And thanks again... Joe I was overjoyed to find you iCal Sunrise & Sunset .ics file for somewhere close to my location in Everett, WA (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms
ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112810699350554635429.000454b24420b947e9f47&ll=47.989749,-122.199168&spn=0,359.975109&t=p&z=15&layer=c&cbll=47.989739,-122.199181&panoid=qiYJa03m_vwzYQpzjzzflw&cbp=12,7.2,,0,5) which is pretty close to 47.99, -122.2. So I can get an approximate time into my iCal. As a photographer (not just dogs) I really depend on it from time to time. Thank you for your efforts on our behalf€¦ Let me know how you are coming on the universal version for next year. And thanks again… Joe

]]> By: Pam http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2232 Pam Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:42:52 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2232 Maria, It seems that I may have missed my opportunity. If you can still get to it, thanks. If not I understand. I do however want to thank you for your Lynda.com movies on blogs. I love that e-learning site and have found your guide quite helpful. Thanks for that! Maria, It seems that I may have missed my opportunity. If you can still get to it, thanks. If not I understand. I do however want to thank you for your Lynda.com movies on blogs. I love that e-learning site and have found your guide quite helpful. Thanks for that!

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2231 Maria Langer Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:51:45 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2009/01/12/exact-sunrisesunset-times-for-pilots-and-photographers/#comment-2231 Anthony, you missed the deadline. I might get to it one of these days, but the offer was for a limited time. Sorry. Anthony, you missed the deadline. I might get to it one of these days, but the offer was for a limited time. Sorry.

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