Solar elevation angle

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The solar elevation angle is the elevation angle of the sun. That is, the angle between the direction of the sun and the (idealized) horizon. It can be calculated, to a good approximation, using the following formula:

where

• is the solar elevation angle
• is the hour angle, in the local solar time.
• is the current sun declination
• is the local latitude

[edit] See also

• Altitude
• Horizontal coordinate system
• Solar azimuth angle
• Sun
• Sunrise
• Sunset