spa

Description:

spa

Solar Positioning Algorithm - Calculate the position of the sun at arbitrary coordinates. #
About #
This is a Dart implementation of the Solar Position Algorithm (SPA) by Ibrahim Reda and Afshin Andreas which is used by the U.S. government for radiology and energy purposes.
See the paper here: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy08osti/34302.pdf
Given an observers coordinates and DateTime it can calculate the position of the sun and other information such as when the sun rises and sets.
Installation #
Add the package to your pubspec.yaml:
dependencies:
spa: ^1.2.0
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Example #
For a better example, see https://github.com/PixelToast/dart-spa/tree/master/example/cities
main() {
var output = spaCalculate(SPAParams(
time: DateTime(2019, 7, 2, 22),
longitude: -83.045753,
latitude: 42.331429,
elevation: 191,
));

print('zenith: ${output.zenith}');
print('azimuth_astro: ${output.azimuthAstro}');
print('azimuth: ${output.azimuth}');
print('incidence: ${output.incidence}');
print('suntransit: ${output.sunTransit}');
print('sunrise: ${output.sunrise}');
print('sunset: ${output.sunset}');
}
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zenith: 97.83236091904035
azimuth_astro: 131.18876481734603
azimuth: 311.18876481734605
incidence: 97.83236091904035
suntransit: 13.604235957046416
sunrise: 5.994654066296624
sunset: 21.21272791301299
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Zenith will be less than 90 degrees when it's daytime.
Documentation #
Documentation can be found at https://pub.dev/documentation/spa/latest/
Accuracy #
Guaranteed accuracy of +/- 0.0003 degrees.
This library is tested against the C implementation by NREL using 1,000,000 random inputs, see test/spa_test.dart for more information.
Performance #
Benchmarks are done using benchmark/spa_benchmark.dart.
On my desktop with a Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.2Ghz I get:
[vm] Result: 16529 spa/s | 60 μs/spa
[DDC] Result: 8077 spa/s | 123 μs/spa
[dart2js -O4] Result: 25316 spa/s | 39 μs/spa
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On an LG K10 with a Snapdragon 410 @ 1.2Ghz I get:
Result: 1149 spa/s | 869 μs/spa
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