# 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 linecolor rgb "gray" linewidth 0.200 dashtype solid, linecolor rgb "gray" linewidth 0.200 dashtype solid 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 polar grid 24, 10 qnorm 1 theta [0:360] r [0:*] 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 trange [ * : * ] noreverse nowriteback set urange [ * : * ] noreverse nowriteback set vrange [ * : * ] noreverse nowriteback 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 = "20-12-2024" Minute = 60.0 Hour = 3600.0 Day = 86400.0 TimeFormat = "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M" Phi = 47.67 n = 9119.5 L = 269.071464299999 g = 345.70993585 lambda = 268.589215248326 eps = 23.4353522 RAsc = -91.53756591589 Dec = -23.4278239328956 daylength = 128.239685186696 corr = 5.22 rise = 14135.9622224035 set = 16641.5622224036 sunlight = "8 h 32 m" sunrise = "8:04" sunset = "16:37" array dummy[150] = 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today = "Today ☉ \n8 h 32 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