#!/usr/local/bin/gnuplot -persist # set terminal pngcairo transparent enhanced font "arial,10" fontscale 1.0 size 600, 400 # set output 'solar_path.1.png' set border 4096 front lt black linewidth 1.000 dashtype solid set dummy t, y set format r "%.0f°" set angles degrees set grid polar 30.000000 set grid noxtics nomxtics noytics nomytics noztics nomztics rtics nomrtics \ nox2tics nomx2tics noy2tics nomy2tics nocbtics nomcbtics set grid layerdefault lt 0 linecolor 0 linewidth 0.500, lt 0 linecolor 0 linewidth 0.500 set raxis set theta clockwise top unset key set label 1 "Solar path at\nLatitude 47.67 N" at screen 0.02, 0.95, 0 left norotate font ":Bold,10" back nopoint set polar set size ratio 1 1,1 set style data lines unset xtics unset ytics set rtics norangelimit 30 set ttics axis in scale 1,0.5 nomirror norotate autojustify set ttics norangelimit autofreq font ":Bold" set ttics add ("W" -90.0000, "N" 0.00000, "E" 90.0000, "S" 180.000) set timestamp "Seattle - %d %b %Y" set timestamp offset character 1, 1, 0 font "" textcolor lt -1 norotate set xrange [ -90.0000 : 90.0000 ] noreverse nowriteback set x2range [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set yrange [ -90.0000 : 90.0000 ] noreverse nowriteback set y2range [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set zrange [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set cbrange [ * : * ] noreverse writeback set rlabel "Altitude" set rlabel offset character -2, 0, 0 font ":Bold" textcolor lt -1 norotate set rrange [ 90.0000 : 0.00000 ] noreverse nowriteback set colorbox vertical origin screen 0.9, 0.2 size screen 0.05, 0.6 front noinvert bdefault h(t) = 360. * t / Day Altitude(t) = asin( sin(Dec) * sin(Phi) + cos(Dec) * cos(Phi) * cos(h(t)) ) cosAzi(t) = ( sin(Dec) * sin(Phi) - cos(Dec) * cos(h(t)) * sin(Phi) ) / cos(Altitude(t)) sinAzi(t) = ( -cos(Dec) * sin(h(t)) ) / cos(Altitude(t)) Azimuth(t) = atan2( sinAzi(t), cosAzi(t) ) NO_ANIMATION = 1 save_encoding = "utf8" Latitude = 47.67 Longitude = -122.28 Date = "11-03-2023" Minute = 60.0 Hour = 3600.0 Day = 86400.0 TimeFormat = "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M" Phi = 47.67 n = 8469.5 L = 348.4006543 g = 65.06974085 lambda = 350.152507076479 eps = 23.4356122 RAsc = -9.04917823254823 Dec = -3.90028544489761 daylength = 171.434936201542 corr = 5.22 rise = 19319.3923441851 set = 21824.9923441851 sunlight = "11 h 25 m" sunrise = "6:38" sunset = "18:03" array dummy[150] = 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today = "Today ☉ \n11 h 25 m\nof sunlight" ## Last datafile plotted: "@@" plot dummy using (winter_azi[$1]):(winter_alt[$1]) lw 2 title " Winter Solstice" at beg left, dummy using (summer_azi[$1]):(summer_alt[$1]) lw 2 title " Summer Solstice" at beg left, dummy using (today_azi[$1]):(today_alt[$1]) lw 2 title today at end right