By WJR, Thu June 23 2022
A set of scripts (bash and awk) used to produce localized planet rise and set times based upon output from aa (Stephen L. Moshier's astronomical almanac program). Output formats include the raw output from aa, CSV, HTML, tabular, and postscript.
planet-rs.sh takes a standard aa input file (refer to my post on aa for an example) and, optionally, format (raw, csv, html, or ps), time zone and a time zone label. In the example outputs below, rise and set times are displayed for Jupiter in July, 2022, EDT (-4 hours from UT).
jeffr@Europa: ~/planet-rs $ ./planet-rs.sh Jupiter-07-2022.txt raw -4 EDT | head Input file: Jupiter-07-2022.txt rises 2022 July 1 Friday 1h 20m 19.873s EDT sets 2022 July 1 Friday 13h 36m 25.567s EDT rises 2022 July 2 Saturday 1h 16m 37.113s EDT sets 2022 July 2 Saturday 13h 32m 54.005s EDT rises 2022 July 3 Sunday 1h 12m 53.963s EDT sets 2022 July 3 Sunday 13h 29m 21.585s EDT rises 2022 July 4 Monday 1h 09m 10.417s EDT sets 2022 July 4 Monday 13h 25m 48.300s EDT rises 2022 July 5 Tuesday 1h 05m 26.473s EDT
jeffr@Europa: ~/planet-rs $ ./planet-rs.sh Jupiter-07-2022.txt csv -4 EDT | head Input file: Jupiter-07-2022.txt 07/01/2022, 01:20 EDT, 13:36 EDT 07/02/2022, 01:16 EDT, 13:32 EDT 07/03/2022, 01:12 EDT, 13:29 EDT 07/04/2022, 01:09 EDT, 13:25 EDT 07/05/2022, 01:05 EDT, 13:22 EDT 07/06/2022, 01:01 EDT, 13:18 EDT 07/07/2022, 00:57 EDT, 13:15 EDT 07/08/2022, 00:54 EDT, 13:11 EDT 07/09/2022, 00:50 EDT, 13:07 EDT
jeffr@Europa: ~/planet-rs $ ./planet-rs.sh Jupiter-07-2022.txt table -4 EDT | head Input file: Jupiter-07-2022.txt +-----------+------------+------------+ | Date | Rise | Set | +-----------+------------+------------+ |07/01/2022 | 01:20 EDT | 13:36 EDT | +-----------+------------+------------+ |07/02/2022 | 01:16 EDT | 13:32 EDT | +-----------+------------+------------+ |07/03/2022 | 01:12 EDT | 13:29 EDT | +-----------+------------+------------+
Here's an example of the HTML output. The example postscript output was converted to PDF using ps2pdf.
The package below includes a sample aa.ini (edit to reflect desired latitude, longitude, etc.) as well as input files for various planets. The scripts have been tested on Ubuntu Linux and Cygwin.
planet-rs.tar.gz, 22K
If you get an error message similar to the following when attempting to use the ps output format:
troff: fatal error: can't find macro file s
It may be due to a missing Groff macro. I solved this issue on Ubuntu Linux by installing the complete Groff package (in addition to the base package, which is installed be default).