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minube/solar-position
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Solar Position PHP Library for sunset, sunrise, twilight phases time calculation.

1.0.0(8y ago)8411PHP

Since Aug 31Pushed 8y ago11 watchersCompare

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Solar Position
==============

[](#solar-position)

Calculate the sunset and sunrise times for a particular location and date, as well as the different twilight phases (civil, nautical, astronomical) times. More details about the different sun position phases in [timeanddate.com](https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/about-sun-calculator.html).

Input
-----

[](#input)

- Date: array('day', 'month', 'year')
- Latitude
- Longitude

Output
------

[](#output)

- UTC [ DateTime](http://php.net/manual/es/class.datetime.php) object

Example
-------

[](#example)

```
    use SolarPosition\Calculator;

    $latitude = 40.433202;
    $longitude = -3.690161;
    $date = array('day'=>23, 'month'=>6, 'year'=>2017);

    $sun = new Calculator();
    $sunsetTime = $sun->getSunset($date, $latitude,$longitude);
    /*
        DateTime Object
        (
            [date] => 2017-06-23 19:48:35
            [timezone_type] => 3
            [timezone] => UTC
        )
    */
```

###  Health Score

30

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LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3179d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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