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Guotu Shen

at East China Normal Univ

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Proceedings Article | 11 September 2013 Paper

Verification of the Astronomical Almanac's algorithm for approximate the position of the sun

Lin Zheng, Guotu Shen, Jiguang Cai, Zhanhai Dong, Jing Gao

Proceedings Volume 8907, 89071X (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2032843

KEYWORDS: Astronomy, Sun, Solar energy, Geography, Atmospheric corrections, Refraction, Data conversion, Electroluminescence, Mechanics, Algorithm development

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With the consumption of the resources, it’s important to develop clean solar energy that can solve the problem of energy shortage. Obtaining an accurate position of the sun is the premise of using the solar energy efficiently. An accurate solar position includes two factors that are elevation and azimuth. In the paper, Joseph J. Michalsky’s algorithm for calculation of the solar position is verified that is taken from the American Astronomical Almanac. The algorithm has been written into program by Joseph J. Michalsky in FORTRAN. In the paper, it’s has been adapted to visual C++ that can calculate the solar elevation and azimuth and errors or some places that less accurate are corrected. The Chinese Astronomical Almanac for the year 1985 doesn’t tabulate elevation and azimuth. The quantities needed to calculate elevation and azimuth are the right ascension, the declination and the Greenwich mean sidereal time that are tabulated in the Almanac. Comparing those variables that calculated from the algorithm with the data from the Chinese Astronomical Almanac for the year 1985, it can be found that the biggest difference of the two ways is only 0.01°, 0.01° and 0.0001h respectively, which prove the accuracy of the algorithm indirectly. The measured data that only include elevation comes from Basic Data of Geography in China written by Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Comparing elevation given by the algorithm with the measured data, it shows that the algorithm can be accurate calculating the position of the sun in some extent. And the paper shows in detail the conversion from the local real solar time to Universal Time because the time in Basic Data of Geography in China is the local real solar time. Finally we notice that the 0.01° accuracy mentioned by other paper is not the accuracy of the elevation and azimuth of the sun, but the accuracy of the right ascension and declination. It’s easy to understand why the difference of the results calculated by the algorithm and measured data is greater than 0.01°.

Proceedings Article | 30 April 2004 Paper

Simulation of DGE based on the volume phase grating

Guotu Shen, Weiyin Ding, Jiguang Cai, Lingbing Bu, Baocheng Yang, Jihong Zheng, Lingjuan Gu, Songlin Zhuang

Proceedings Volume 5279, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.520512

KEYWORDS: Optical amplifiers, Modulation, Diffraction gratings, Diffraction, Phase shift keying, Optical design, Optical communications, Telecommunications, Liquid crystals, Refractive index

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