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Frank Thomas Tveter edited this page Apr 20, 2017 · 26 revisions

astro-api standalone astronomical data service

This package contains setup instructions for installing and running the astro-api for yr.no on an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu Xenial server. The package contains the html/Javascript-pages for a webpage demonstration along with the perl cgi-bin scripts and fortran/perl/xs astro-library.

An online demonstration of the astro-api is available at http://astro.met.no/astro

The astro-api can be used in two ways, either to find astronomical events, like the next sunset, or to get the state of the solar system at a given time. For instance this link gives the previous and next times of maximum/minimum lunar illumination.