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Wakusei Planets惑星

The Sun, the planets and their moons as a clean line drawing, a shaded realistic drawing or a painted surface map, with real sizes, tilt and rotation, and the moons where they are at any date and time.

Wakusei is the Japanese word 惑星 for a planet. About the name

Contents

Reference · The Sun and Moon from a place: position, sunrise and sunset, Moon rise, set and phase, with suncalc 2's names and a better engine

Positiontype

Where a body is in a place's sky: the azimuth in degrees clockwise from north (0 north, 90 east, 180 south, 270 west) and the apparent altitude (refraction included) in degrees.

Import it

import type { Position } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/suncalc";

Definition

interface Position {
    azimuth: number;
    altitude: number;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
azimuthnumber
altitudenumber

Examples

import { getPosition, type Position } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/suncalc";

const p: Position = getPosition(new Date(Date.UTC(2026, 5, 21, 12)), 51.5, -0.1);
console.log(p.altitude > 0);
true

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets 0.24.0.