@welpixuae Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately there are multiple systems of Azimuth in use. The one I display is measured from south to the west. Changing to north to east could be an option. But some systems then switch this around on the southern hemisphere. So this isn't a straight forward issue.
Altitude is the correct term for the angle between the sun and the horizontal plane, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_coordinate_system.
@davidkingham Thank you for the suggestion. The reason I haven't done that is that I also use the length of the line to indicate the altitude of the sun. Also, with very small zoom levels (i.e. when showing large parts of the earth), a straight line is a bit misleading.
I would rather make the lines have a meaningful length, such as the ~100 miles you mentioned when showing low clouds.
I can't promise when I'll get to it though.
For anyone following this topic still: I've made a new post about the new version 2 of this plugin. You can find it at https://community.windy.com/topic/32647/sun-position-plugin-v2
A Windy plugin that shows sun and moon positions on the map and gives details about sunset and sunrise times as well as other sun and moon details. This is a full rewrite of version 1 to work with the new windy plugin api and includes a number of improvements.
To use it on Desktop go to Menu -> Install Windy Plugin -> Sun and Moon position -> Install plugin. You can then access it by right-clicking on the map and selecting Sun Position. The plugin will stay available even after a reload. (Mobile TBD)
The dial displays the current sun and moon azimuth on the map using a black line from the picker position. Additionally, dashed lines show the azimuth of sunrise and sunset and dotted lines show the azimuth of moonrise and moonset.
The detail pane on the right shows current azimuth and altitude of the sun and moon and their rise and set times. It also shows the current sunlight condition (such as golden hour), and moon phase. Optionally, a timeline can be activated, that shows the timing of astronomical and nautical twilight, and blue and golden hour.
The top of the pane shows a diagram of the sun and moon altitudes over the curse of the current day.
See here for the changelog of version 1
Plugin version 0.3.6 fixes the loading issues caused by changes to windy. Sorry it took this long.
This is now the 5th time in 4 years I had to update the plugin because some change to windy broke it. If this trend continues, I can't guarantee that I'd be willing/able to do this in the future - especially if the info about the breaking changes comes from users complaining that it doesn't work anymore; some less polite than others. Unless things change, this is no longer an ecosystem I want to spend time contributing to.
So if someone else wants to take over the maintenance of this plugin - or rewrite it - they are more than welcome to do so; otherwise this might be the last update. Thanks for the support until now though!
I've now released version 0.3.4 that fixes another loading issue that resulted from changes on windy.
I've now released version 0.3.3 that fixes the loading issues. Sorry for the delay.
@idefix37 @JHMARSHAL Sorry about that. I haven't kept track of windy the updates. I'll fix the plugin when I find the time to do so (hopefully soon).
No, the golden hour is defined as sun elevations between 6 degrees above and 4 degrees below the horizon. So the golden hour does start before the sunset and also continues until after sunrise. The entire time range in orange is the Golden Hour. Also, in very high latitudes the entire day might be "golden hour" as the sun never reaches higher than 6 degrees above the horizon.
(Also see the screenshot in the original post, it was always this way ;) )
I have just released version 0.3.2 of the plugin. The plugin was broken because the pluginDataLoader changed. I only used the pluginDataLoader for a timezone lookup. As that wasn't a good solution anyway I am now using the tz-lookup package instead. So hopefully it wont break as easily in the future.
Furthermore this update makes use of the query string: For example you can now directly open https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-sun-position?photoSun=true&astroSun=false&moon=false to get only photography sun details.
@Oilyan @vsinceac I'm not sure what the problem is. I just tried it again and for me, it still works for me (both on PC and on mobile). You should be able to find the option to open it in the context menu (right-click on the map on PC; long tap on the map on mobile). You can move the picker afterward as well, just make sure not to clock on a city label as that opens the weather forecast and closes the plugin pane.
Alright, I see your points.
(1) That makes sense, but maybe the module could have a simple logic that checks if an older version is already enabled and disables that one, so the newest version that is a dependency of any installed plugin is used.
(2) Right, but that doesn't include the possibility to keep the svg together with another plugin. Ideally, I would like to have a function onOtherPluginUsesPicker() that is called before another plugin wants to draw something at the picker; triggered by that plugin calling plugin_coordinator.usePicker(). Also, a parameter with the other Plugins name would make sense in these callbacks so you can whitelist other plugins that are compatible.
(4) Cleaning up the csv is a bit annoying. I still think that having a module for standard plugin csv stuff (windy object z-levels, bottom panes on mobile etc.) would make sense and simplify plugin development.
I'll take a look at the module code tomorrow again and maybe try out some of these things myself :)
Seems like good idea.
A few things to consider:
I think it is a good idea to have a community-driven module that handles these things (whether included in windy directly or as dependencies of other plugins). It could also include some CSS changes needed on windy stuff so that plugins are less likely to interfere with each other. For example, my sun-position plugin includes
#device-mobile #bottom {
z-index: 2; // makes timeline appear on top of the pane in mobile
}
to make sure the timeline is in front of the bottom pane on mobile. Other plugins with fullscreen panes might want to be displayed in front of the timeline, so having a fixed z-index everyone can count on (that is larger than 0) would be good. I am sure other plugins have some of these "hacky" things as well...
As a final note, could you put these modules into their own GitHub repo? That would make cooperation on additional features easier. (And having them in a fork of windy-plugins doesn't quite make sense.)
Two things that would be great for the alert system:
I've just released version 0.3.1 to fix the sidebar issue caused by windy changes.
I have just released version 0.3.0 of the plugin! This update adds details about the moon position. The moon position is shown on the map similar to the sun position. Additional dotted lines show the moonrise and moonset directions. The detail pane also includes the moonrise and moonset times and some details about the current position of the moon. The moon display can be hidden by clicking the moon button the top of the details pane.
Furthermore, I have added options to hide some sun details, grouped by Astronomical and Photography. Astronomical shows astronomical, nautical and civil twilight times and Photography shows blue and golden hour times. Both groups can be enabled together, showing all times as before the update (nautical twilight was wrongly labeled blue hour before the update, while blue hour really is part of the civil twilight).
@marco-1v Ehm, I am not sure how that could happen. Maybe some caching problem? That seems to be more of a bug inside windy. Try to specify the version by entering windy-plugin-sun-position@0.2.0 as the plugin name
Besides that, I have made a mistake such that is shows that it is on version 0.1.1 while it is actually on version 0.2.0 (and 0.1.0 if it is actually on version 0.1.1).
I have just released version 0.2.0 of the plugin. It hides the times that do not exist in the detail pane and now supports the mobile page (see changelog in the post on top). To facilitate mobile usage the hook to access the plugin has changed from the Overlay menu to the context menu. Simply right-click the map (or tap and hold on mobile) and click on "Sun Position" to open the plugin
@rittels I am not sure how plugins work on mobile. I do not even find the place where you load plugins!? If I directly enter windy.com/plugins into the address bar, I can load the plugin (and also via windy.com/dev), but I can't find the hook in the menu on the right... If I use the contextmenu hook, it does work on mobile but I would prefer to keep it in the menu.
Also, without the "plugin-mobile-fullscreen" the left pane is too large for mobile (having the picker behind the pane). Ideally, I would like to be able to open and close the full-screen page from the script. Is this possible?
Hi @stitch ,
I have just published a new version (v0.1.1) that fixes this problem. Now, times are displayed in the timezone of the position selected. If you want to see the times in UTC, you need to enable the "Display all times in UTC" option (zuluMode) in the windy settings.
Jochen