Re:Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth
by zie on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:52AM
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You would need to have the data of how high the sun is in the sky, plus to be accurate you would need to have cloud data as well.
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Re:Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth
by smackay on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:58AM
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This https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilig... is probably a good approximation.
Re:Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth
by joeyrobert on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:25PM
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I'm thinking more of an Irradiance map where the value is the current W/m^2 at a specific location, which would take into account latitude and time of year (to get the angle of the Earth relative to the sun), along with other factors like clouds, altitude.
e.g. https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/solar/solar_ghi_2018_usa_sca... but on the daily.
Re:Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth
by palerdot on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:07PM
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As a start, it will be nice to just show the relative intensity of the light ignoring clouds and stuffs ... for example, people should know early morning, mid day and evening from the map which helps which part of the globe is going to get active/inactive