[QGIS-Developer] Preview of the QGIS Earth, Sun, Moon, & Planets Plugin

[C Hamilton]

Yes that could be done and is a good idea.

Best wishes,

Calvin

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 8:15 PM Frank M. Howell <frankmhowell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Calvin,
>
> I downloaded and installed it in Win 10 x64…will install on Linux Mint
> 20.2 this weekend.
>
> If this feature is already implemented, forgive my not yet noticing it.
> Would it be possible to take the earth et al data and write it to the
> attribute table at the date/time for each location in a table?
>
> For instance, I use RF beacon observations for Maidenhead Grid Squares
> using the centroid of each grid square. It would be very useful to use the
> date/time field from the attribute table to have the plugin retrieve the
> Sun’s location and save that back to the table in a new field, for each
> location in the table.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank
>
> On Jul 1, 2021, at 6:36 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hey Calvin
>
> Testing here (after pip installing skyfield) on Fedora 34 and it works
> great! The only comment I would make is that it would be nice if the
> Sun/Lunar Info dock panel docked itself on start up rather than floating
> (which looks a bit messy).
>
> Looking forward to being able to animate this stuff with temporal
> controller one day!
>
> How did you make the day / night / twilight shadow layers you shared in a
> previous email?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 6:50 PM C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought I would give you an alpha version of the QGIS Earth, Sun, Moon
>> & Planets plugin I am developing. This plugin requires QGIS 3.14 or more
>> recent. It is also rather large because it contains all the data needed to
>> run. If you are on windows and want to download a self contained windows
>> plugin use this link to download:
>>
>>
>>  earthsunmoon-alpha-windows.zip
>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pld4yIxBTTHA0FBwPbaUw_qfrIhHTawA/view?usp=drive_web>
>>
>> If you are using some other OS, use this link, but before you install it
>> open up your OSGeo4W console and run "pip install skyfield'. If this is not
>> the proper command for your OS then adjust it to how you install a python
>> package. In the OSGeo4W shell you may need to run py3_env first. If py3_env
>> gives an error then it is not needed.
>>
>>
>>  earthsunmoon-alpha.zip
>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kJammSDWRTk7659Ncp3qAnNMQLggZ4Ks/view?usp=drive_web>
>>
>> There are 3 processing routines that can be used to display the 1) sun,
>> 2) moon, 3) planets showing their position directly overhead at a
>> particular date and time and will look something like this:
>>
>> <image.png>
>>
>>
>> There is also another window that displays all kinds of earth and moon
>> data for a particular location when you click on the "Solar/lunar
>> information" dialog box that can be found in "Plugins->Earth, sun, moon, &
>> plants." There is a green plus sign in the dialog box. Click on it and then
>> click anywhere on the map to capture the coordinate to display solar and
>> lunar information.
>>
>> If you need help to manually install this plugin let me know.
>>
>> I have not included the day/night terminator algorithm yet because there
>> is a bug in it. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Calvin
>>
>
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