NAME

rst_almanac — calculate rise, set and transit times of Sun, Moon and the planets.

SYNOPSIS

rst_almanac [options]

OPTIONS

--help

Prints a brief help message and exits.

--man

Prints the manual page and exits.

--start

Start date, in YYYY-DD-MM format, current date by default.

--days

Number of days to process, 30 by default

--timezone

Time zone name, e.g.: EST, UTC, Europe/Berlin etc. or offset from Greenwich in format +HHMM / -HHMM, like +0300.

--timezone=CET # Central European Time
--timezone=EST # Eastern Standard Time
--timezone=UTC # Universal Coordinated Time
--timezone=GMT # Greenwich Mean Time, same as the UTC
--timezone=+0300 # UTC + 3h (eastward from Greenwich)
--timezone="Europe/Moscow"

By default, local timezone by default.

Please, note: Windows platform does not recognize some time zone names, MSK for instance. In such cases use offset from Greenwich format, as described above.

--place

The observer's location. Contains 2 elements, space separated.

• latitude in DD(N|S)MM format, N for North, S for South.

• longitude in DDD(W|E)MM format, W for West, E for East.

E.g.: --place=51N28 0W0 for Greenwich, UK (the default).

Decimal numbers are also supported. In that case

• The latitude always goes first

• Negative numbers represent South latitude and East longitudes.

--place=55.75 -37.58 for Moscow, Russian Federation. --place=40.73 73.935 for New-York, NY, USA.

DESCRIPTION

Calculate rise, set and transit times of Sun, Moon and the planets for given range of days

EXAMPLES

perl ./script/rst_almanac.pl --place=56N26 37E09 --days=7
perl ./script/rst_almanac.pl --place=56N26 37E09 --start=2021-01-01 --days=365