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Have you ever wanted to know when the sun rises or setrs in your PF game? Or how bright the sky is and whether or not you can see? If so, then read on...
Announcing the Golarion Solar Ephemeris calculator
This is based off of the ongoing efforts to map Golarion and put specific latitude and longitude coordinates to known locations on the globe. The Golarion solar ephemeris calculator uses earth solar ephemeris equations to obtain the same data for Golarion, only mapped to Golarion-local times.
It can tell you:
- When the sun rises and sets at a given location
- When the various twilight phases occur
- How bright your lighting conditions are based on the above (dark, dim, normal, bright)
There are still some quirks. You can enter invalid data and it will still try to make sense of it. If you enter data at the poles it will still correctly calculate that there may not be any change in lighting, but it doesn't print a meaningful message as a result. There's also no cool mapping integration, though there is a nice lookup table for all known cities and landmarks on Golarion. You'll also find Garrett's Interactive Golarion maps (two options: a vector version which shows more of the poles but is slower, and a tiled version that is faster and better for mobile devices but a little less feature-rich) to be useful tools for finding the latitude and longitude of arbitrary points on the globe.
Awesome!
Thanks! I hope people find these useful.
I had been using the Photographer's Ephemeris prior to creating this, and just plugging in lat/long for Golarion locations, but it's much easier to be able to search for POI's and have them pop up IMHO.
This is actually super super handy for a project I'm working on, thanks!
Good to have some free solar ephemeris stuff out there. ;)
I fixed a bug in the JavaScript ,library that parses lat/long coordinates. This was causing issues with negative coordinates (122.0000 W parsed correctly, but -122.0000 did not).
