Solar Position API
Solar-position astronomy as an API, computed locally and deterministically with the NOAA solar-calculator algorithm. The position endpoint gives the sun's elevation (altitude above the horizon), azimuth (clockwise from true north), zenith angle and hour angle for any latitude, longitude, date and local time with a UTC offset — telling you exactly where the sun is in the sky and whether it is above the horizon. The declination endpoint gives the solar declination — the sun's angle north or south of the equator, about +23.44° at the June solstice and −23.44° in December — and the equation of time, the difference between apparent and mean solar time, for any date. The solar-noon endpoint gives the local clock time of solar noon, the peak (noon) elevation 90 − |latitude − declination| and the day length, handling polar day and polar night. Latitudes and longitudes are in degrees (north and east positive), dates are YYYY-MM-DD and times HH:MM:SS local. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for solar-tracking, PV-panel-orientation, photography golden-hour, agriculture, shading-analysis and astronomy app developers, sun-path and daylight tools, and STEM teaching. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 endpoints. This is the sun's position in the sky; for sunrise and sunset clock times use a sunrise API and for solar irradiance and PV resource a solar-resource API.
api.oanor.com/solarposition-api
