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Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth

74 点作者 tpaschalis将近 6 年前

23 条评论

sciurus将近 6 年前
You&#x27;ll find this sort of visualization on a lot of ham radio websites, since skywave propagation between two points varies based on the amount of sunlight among other things. For instance, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pskreporter.info&#x2F;pskmap.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pskreporter.info&#x2F;pskmap.html</a><p>The Geochron (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geochron.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;what-is-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geochron.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;what-is-it&#x2F;</a>) is a mechanical map+clock created in 1965 that shows it.
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mixmastamyk将近 6 年前
This is a really useful visual if one has contacts or meetings in other world cities. The left edge of the light hump is roughly 6am, the center is noon, and the right edge is roughly 6pm. The center of the dark hump is midnight, give or take DST.<p>Gnome2 had a map like this in its calendar&#x2F;time drop-down when you add cities to it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.gnome.org&#x2F;misc&#x2F;release-notes&#x2F;2.22&#x2F;figures&#x2F;rnusers-international-clock.png.fr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.gnome.org&#x2F;misc&#x2F;release-notes&#x2F;2.22&#x2F;figures&#x2F;rnuse...</a><p>It&#x27;s one of the main reasons I still use Mate. No other desktop environment keeps it handy like this. I try them for a bit, then always go back to Mate.
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joeyrobert将近 6 年前
Interesting that these maps are always binary: light or dark, when the intensity of light varies based on how high the sun is in the sky. Is there a version of this map that takes that into account?
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kmano8将近 6 年前
Tangentially related plug for a small site I built to tell you when golden hour is at your location <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whenisgoldenhour.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whenisgoldenhour.com&#x2F;</a> [1]<p>Would love to figure out how to incorporate a world dot map like this, but showing the two current golden hours (morning and evening) instead.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ksho&#x2F;whenisgoldenhour.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ksho&#x2F;whenisgoldenhour.com&#x2F;</a>
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kylek将近 6 年前
Somewhat related- not quite live, but NASA&#x27;s DSCOVR is a satellite that is always on the sunlit side of the earth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epic.gsfc.nasa.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epic.gsfc.nasa.gov&#x2F;</a>
krispbyte将近 6 年前
Here is another take at the same: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;Earth" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;Earth</a>
enriquto将近 6 年前
I was expecting a map showing the clouds!
khaki54将近 6 年前
I like the one that has the sunlight map plus the live cloud cover feeds - Interestingly enough, this is the site that holds all the linux manpages.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.die.net&#x2F;earth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.die.net&#x2F;earth&#x2F;</a><p>You can actually just link the image to your desktop and depending on settings will auto update throughout the day. Sometimes you need to write a script
wang_li将近 6 年前
Xsunclock.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch&#x2F;xsunclock&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch&#x2F;xsunclock&#x2F;</a>
TeMPOraL将近 6 年前
Nice!<p>Huh, I wanted to draw something exactly like this to put as hero image of my company page, except with ISS orbit instead of the terminator. I really like this &quot;world map out of dots&quot; style.
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Tepix将近 6 年前
Can&#x27;t you use a static image on the server and compute the terminator on the client side? That way it would always be up-to-date even without a reload.
ch4s3将近 6 年前
This reminded me of a moving city on Mercury called Terminator from Kim Stanley Robinson‘s novel 2312. The city slides along metal tracks propelled by the expansion and contraction of the metal as the terminator of the sunlight shifts. There’s even a sun cult that chases perpetual dawn. It’s a pretty good science novel.
imjustsaying将近 6 年前
Nice work.<p>Want another challenge? Try one with the azimuthal equidistant projection. Would be quite interesting to watch the comparison.
agapon将近 6 年前
In the old days I used use xearth (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xearth.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xearth.org&#x2F;</a>) to set my X background to a view of our planet with the sunlight correctly applied.
bhrgunatha将近 6 年前
There used to be a page that showed the view from a webcam located wherever the sun was currently rising as you viewed the page.<p>Can&#x27;t find it any more though - probably been removed.
perilunar将近 6 年前
You can get a live map of where the sun is shining from Google maps. Just switch to satellite view and zoom out until you see the whole earth, then a bit more.
bugeats将近 6 年前
I&#x27;d love to use this as a clock pane in my window manager. If you added the local time and removed some of the large text, it would be a great background.
joshypants将近 6 年前
Very nice. It would also be cool to be able to input what datetime you want it to display sunlight for.
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jarjoura将近 6 年前
Poor Antarctica right now.
ge96将近 6 年前
I don&#x27;t know off hand what this cliche wave is called(shown in like all SciFi space launch movies) the wider top part of the wave that&#x27;s the Earth tilted in that direction? eg. northern part is exposed towards the sun more. At this time for me in US.
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sc9311将近 6 年前
This would be pretty slick as a new tab chrome extension.
salutonmundo将近 6 年前
related, and also useful: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;now&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;now&#x2F;</a>
sumeetk将近 6 年前
simple and sweet - quite interesting and useful !