Centroid Solar Intensity
Percent of the solar disc visible, along with lighting condition and name of obscuring central body.Available for these objects: AreaTarget
Type: Time-varying data.
Availability: Reports | Graphs | Dynamic Displays | Strip Charts
Data Provider Elements
| Name | Dimension | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Date | Real Number or Text | Time. |
| Intensity | Unitless | Real Number | The percentage of the solar disk not currently occulted. |
| Percent Shadow | Unitless | Real Number | The percentage of the solar disk which is currently occulted. |
| Apparent Solar Elevation | Angle | Real Number or Text | The elevation of the apparent position of the sun. |
| Solar Grazing Angle | Angle | Real Number or Text | The grazing angle between the apparent position of the sun and the obstruction surface used in lighting computations (i.e., central body ellipsoid, terrain, or AzEl mask). Note that the value reported may be only an approximate measure when the sun's disk is sufficiently obstructed when terrain is the obstruction surface (to compute faster when the amount of terrain obstruction is not really relevant). |
| Solar Disk Half Angle | Angle | Real Number or Text | The angle between the apparent position of the sun and the limb of the sun. |
| Apparent Solar Range | Distance | Real Number | The range of the apparent sun position. |