Sun and moon rise and set given a date and location

Calculate the time of sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset at a specific location and date. The time zone of the location is used as specified in the location object. No adjustments are made for daylight saving.

Usage

sunrise(date, location, ...)

sunset(date, location, ...)

moonset(date, location)

moonrise(date, location)

Arguments

date: Date in calcalvec format
location: Location of class "location", usually the output from the location function
...: Additional arguments passed to specific methods

Value

Time of sunrise

Examples

melbourne <- location(-37.8136, 144.9631, 31, 10)
sydney <- location(-33.8688, 151.2093, 3, 10)
sunrise(gregorian_date(2025, 1, 1), c(melbourne, sydney))
#> <time_of_day[2]>
#> [1] 05:00:25.00 04:47:19.90
sunset(gregorian_date(2025, 1, 1), c(melbourne, sydney))
#> <time_of_day[2]>
#> [1] 19:46:39.75 19:09:47.84
moonrise(gregorian_date(2025, 1, 1), c(melbourne, sydney))
#> <time_of_day[2]>
#> [1] 05:42:37.06 05:30:21.65
moonset(gregorian_date(2025, 1, 1), c(melbourne, sydney))
#> <time_of_day[2]>
#> [1] 21:11:26.75 20:32:28.22