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Package to generate moon phase - SR-SS

3 messages · Neotropical bat risk assessments, Jeff Newmiller, Duncan Murdoch

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Hi all

I have not found a package by Googling, but assume there must be at 
least one out there.
I need to generate/write sun rise-sun set times (civil twilight) and 
moon phase/illumination.

I would like to add a start date and end date along with location 
coordinates and have a table generated like below.
This is from a legacy program acquired some 30 years ago and is no 
longer available.? This can only generate 1 month at a time (subset 
below).? But for a year at a time both historical and for future dates 
and locations.

For this legacy program I enter the date and select a location I have in 
a simple TXT location file location with time-zone and X-Y coordinates 
and it will generate a month at a time.? this can be dumped to the 
clipboard but not written as a TXT or delimited file.

I am hoping there will be an elegant way to do this in R and have the 
results written to a file for import into an Access DB.
Tnx for any suggestions? on package(s).

Sample below.

 ??????????????????? Sun and Moon Data for March 2021
 ???????????????????????? 17.05?N? 88.57?W? 5hrW
 ????????????????????? Standard Time? Civil Twilight

 ??????????????????????????? Sun???????????????????????? Moon
 ????? Date??? Twi.? Rise? Transit? Set??? Twi.? Rise? Transit Set??? %

 ?? 3/1/2021? 06:50? 07:12? 13:07? 19:01? 19:23? 21:36? 02:52? 09:04 92
 ?? 3/2/2021? 06:50? 07:11? 13:06? 19:01? 19:23? 22:35? 03:43? 09:47 85
 ?? 3/3/2021? 06:49? 07:11? 13:06? 19:02? 19:23? 23:35? 04:35? 10:31 76
 ?? 3/4/2021? 06:48? 07:10? 13:06? 19:02? 19:24? *****? 05:28? 11:18 65
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Odd.. came right up for me. Perhaps you might find rseek.org easier to use?
On March 7, 2021 5:03:20 AM PST, Neotropical bat risk assessments and acoustic tools <neotropical.bats at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
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For me too:  suncalc is the package.

Duncan Murdoc
On 07/03/2021 10:37 a.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote: