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YOUR CALENDAR
Andrew Jones and Bill Rankin, 2011

Building off of Bill's star maps and calendar for New Haven, we decided to make a simple program to produce calendars for anywhere in the world. We've added some new options, too!

Latitude:	(negative for south)
Longitude:	(negative for west)
Name:

Use Time Zone: UTC

Rule:
Start:
End:

What to show on main chart?
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Moon
Daylight
Transparent?
Eclipses
Solar Noon
Hours of Daylight
Center on Midnight?

Which extra sections to include?
Lunar Phases
     With Lunar Holidays?
Elongation
Apparent Magnitude
Meteor Showers
Azimuth at Rise & Set
Highest Altitude
Signs of the Zodiac
     With Sun's Actual Location?
     With Planets' Locations?
Apparent Size, Phase,
       and Retrograde Motion
Galilean Moons of Jupiter
Tilt of Saturn’s Rings

Graphics Options
Use Black Background?
High Quality (much slower)?

Please be patient ... calculations can take anywhere between a few seconds and several minutes, depending on options.

This script was hand-built with pyephem. Special thanks also to Brian Jones for his encouragement.

Want the full source code? Just email me!