NOAA Solar

💻 Rhino 5, Grasshopper

🔼 Grasshopper 0.9.0075

🛠️ C# Component

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Inspired by Ted Ngai’s work, the NOAA sun calc component implements and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s free online Solar Calulation tool and equation found here. This component uses a Latitude and Longitude coordinate and GMT offset value with a date and time and returns the sun’s vector at the specified parameters as well as a series of other datapoints at the given sample.

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