// This program animates the transit of Venus across the sun on 2012-06-05. use planets.frink use sun.frink timezone = "Mountain" lat = 39.58560 degrees North long = 104.89598 degrees West /*lat = DMS[40, 33, 35.84] North long = DMS[105,04,57.64] West*/ df = ### yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm ### g = new graphics win = g.show[] //for planet = [Planet.Mercury, Planet.Venus] planet = Planet.Venus startdate = #2012-06-05 04:00 PM# enddate = sunset[startdate, lat, long] for d = #2012-06-05 04:00 PM# to enddate step 10 s { [azsun, altsun] = refractedSunAzimuthAltitude[d, lat, long] [azp, altp] = planet.refractedAzimuthAltitude[d, lat, long] separation = angularSeparation[azsun, altsun, azp, altp] sunRadius = sunRadiusAngle[d] venusRadius = planet.radiusAngle[d] //println[venusRadius -> [0, "deg", "arcmin", "arcsec"]] flag = "" if separation < sunRadius + venusRadius { flag = "*" if separation < sunRadius - venusRadius flag = "**" g = new graphics [skyr,skyg,skyb] = skyDarkness[d, lat, long, [[.1,.1,.1], [.1,.1,.2], [.1,.1,.3], [.1,.1,.4], [.8,.8,1]]] g.backgroundColor[skyr, skyg, skyb] // Draw the sun g.color[1,1,0] // Yellow g.fillEllipseCenter[(azsun-azsun) cos[-altsun], -(altsun-altsun), 2 sunRadius, 2 sunRadius] // Draw Venus // How much more black could it be? The answer is none. None more black. g.color[0,0,0] g.fillEllipseCenter[(azp-azsun) cos[-altp], -(altp-altsun), 2 venusRadius, 2 venusRadius] // g.add[planet.drawPolygonRelativeToZenith[d, lat, long, azp, -altp, venusRadius, true]] win.replaceGraphics[g] } println[(d->timezone) + "\t" + format[separation,"deg", 5] + "\t$flag" ] }