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Re: Julian Date formula for sun algorithm
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Sep 8, 14:50 -0700
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Sep 8, 14:50 -0700
Julian day begins at noon.
The algorithms I copied from Meeus's book in my previous post takes this into account: if you look at the formula carefully
you see that when all inputs are integers, the ourput involves 0.5 of a day.
Alex.
