Rise, Set, Transit, Up and RA times

Rise and Set Times.ssc

Version 5.0

Made: In Stellarium 0.12.1

Instructions:

1) Download zip file
2) Extract the files
3) Run Stellarium
4) Run script
5) Run file
6) Move to date to see rise, set, transit, length and RA sun times

New in Version 5.0

* Updated to work accurately with Stellarium Versions 0.12.0 & 0.12.1

Note: Stellarium version 0.12.0 & 0.12.1 changed the way scripts calculate dates. This one will correct those bugs & update to the changes and work right with Stellarium 0.12.0 & 0.12.1. If you are using a previous version of Stellarium download on on the previous versions of this script below.

New in Version 4.1

* Fixed Column location bug
* Use fuller named script

New in Version 4.0

* Obtains latitude & longitude accurately
* Can change latitude & longitude while running the script
* Displays what Constellation sun, moon & planets are in

New in Version 3.0

* Calculates latitude more accurately
* Can change latitude while running the script
* Font to White color

  New in Version 2.0

Removed some stars to make room for extra GUI info added in Stellarium Version 11

General Notes:

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There are 45 bodies whose rise, set, transit, up time and RA sun are shown. I cover both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres so some bodies won't have rise times at your location.

You can have a total of 46.

Add bodies you wish to see in the script file in the following format.

ij[i] = "Body name in Stellarium"; ik[i] = "Display Name"; i = i + 1;

For example

ij[i] = "HIP 7588"; ik[i] = "Achemar"; i = i + 1;

If you want other bodies, you can just remove the bodies that never rise at your latitude or ones you aren't interested in.

To remove object remove whole line

Remember that

i + i + 1;

at the end of the line is important.

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Note: Version 4.1 uses new script commands that were not available before Stellarium version 11.4, if you are using a Stellarium version prior to 11.4, version 4 of this script will not work so download one of the previous versions instead

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Constellations work great for the sun, moon and planets. Pluto and Asteroids not so well which is why I left them off.

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Times for the Moon might be off by up to an hour,  the moon's movement around the earth is factored in (there is a bug in Stellarium that prevents reasonably calculating it),  I will work on this for future revisions if the bug is fixed.

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Transit times are always the date you are on, the rise and set times are calculated from it. If a rise or set time is before or after midnight when compared to the transit time, then they are the previous or next day respectively.

For example if the date is March 27,

If for Mars the rise/transit/set times are

Rise: 23:00
Transit: 07:00
Set: 15:00

Then Mars rose 23:00 on March 26th, transits 07:00 March 27th and sets 15:00 on March 27th

If for Jupiter the rise/transit/set times are

Rise: 09:00
Transit: 17:00
Set: 01:00

Then Jupiter rises 09:00 on March 27th, transits 17:00 March 27th and sets 01:00 on March 28th

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Transit: When the body crosses the meridian.

RA Sun: The Right Ascension separation between sun and body

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Please do check out ephemeris from the polar regions, it took me quite a bit to get them right

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A link to a site that deserve credit for helping me predict, find & make these scripts

http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/comp/ppcomp.html

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My dates and data I calculated do seem to match other dates from a wide variety of sources, but I make no guarantee on accuracy.

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I can be emailed at qam1@aol.com