Extracting Solar Altitude/Zenith Angles

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Daithi
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Extracting Solar Altitude/Zenith Angles

Post by Daithi »

Hi,

After setting the location in APLocate I'm hoping to extract the solar altitude (or zenith) angles from Suncast for every hour of every day of one year.

I think I can do this by running Solar Shading Calculations (31 separate times), saving the Table of Solar Altitudes and subsequently manipulating it in Excel. This will involve a fair amount of cutting and pasting in Excel.

Is there an easier way to get a simple text or Excel output document with one column of hourly solar altitude angles for one year?

Thanks!

Daithi.
vajindarladdad
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Re: Extracting Solar Altitude/Zenith Angles

Post by vajindarladdad »

Hi Daithi,
You can save the result in simple text format using 'Save' button.
To save the result for some particular hour you need to copy & paste.
I know it is bit tidious , I will pass your request to our development team.
Thanks & Regards ,
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Daithi
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Re: Extracting Solar Altitude/Zenith Angles

Post by Daithi »

Thanks for replying Laddad.

I've extracted the angles. As you said, a little bit tedious, but it's done now.
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