stleary

<p>This plugin displays data of interest to amateur astronomers. It is calculated from user-provided location and date information.<br />
The plugin is called from a WordPress shortcode, and the parameters are specified in the shortcode. The following parameters are<br />
required, in any order:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>lat</strong> : Lattitude of location in fractional degrees (e.g. 30.8910). Positive is north, negative is south of equator</li>
<li><strong>long</strong> : Longitude of location in fractional degrees (e.g.-98.4265). Positive is east, negative is west of the UTC line</li>
<li><strong>timezone</strong> : Timezone name, must be value recognized by PHP. See <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php" rel="nofollow ugc">http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php</a></li>
</ul>
<p>These parameters are optional:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>name</strong> : The name of the location to be calculated</li>
<li><strong>days</strong> : The number of days of data to display. Must be a value from 1 to 10. Defaults to 3 if not specified. </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Shortcode Examples:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>stars-at-night name=Chennai lat=13.08 long=80.26 timezone=Asia/Kolkata days=1</li>
<li>stars-at-night name=”COE Observing Field” lat=30.891 long=-97.4265 timezone=America/Chicago days=10</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also display the individual data tables via more specific shortcodes:</p>
<ul>
<li>stars-at-night-sun-moon name=”Mount Kilimanjaro” lat=-2.55 long=37.55 timezone=Africa/Nairobi</li>
<li>stars-at-night-planets name=”Ushuaia” lat=-54.8 long=-68.33 timezone=America/Argentina/Ushuaia</li>
<li>stars-at-night-iss name=”Mount Burnett Observatory” lat=-37.9 long=145.4 timezone=Australia/Melbourne days=7</li>
</ul>
<p>The output consists of simple HTML tables:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sun/Moon table: The times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, morning astronomical twilight, and evening astronomical twilight for the specified days (max 10 days).</li>
<li>Planets table: The times and visibility for the planets, for the current day.</li>
<li>ISS table: The times and directions for visible ISS passes over the specified days (max 10 days).</li>
<li>(REMOVED) Iridium flares table: The times and directions for visible Iridium flares over the specified days (max 7 days).</li>
</ul>
<p>You can view the plugin in action here: <a href="http://johnjleary.com/notforlong" rel="nofollow ugc">http://johnjleary.com/notforlong</a></p>
<p><strong>Credits and Acknowledgements:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Lunar images by <a href="mailto://Dan@danmorgan.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Dan Morgan</a>. Used with permission. <a href="http://DanMorgan.org" rel="nofollow ugc">http://DanMorgan.org</a>.</li>
<li>WordPress framework and sunrise/sunset algorithm: https://github.com/bengreeley/sunrisesunset</li>
<li>Moonrise and Moonset class (with a correction for timezone): http://dxprog.com/entry/calculate-moon-rise-and-set-in-php</li>
<li>Moon phase class: https://github.com/solarissmoke/php-moon-phase</li>
<li>Planetary, ISS and Iridium Flare tables are obtained by sending GET requests to: http://heavens-above.com (HTTP API used with permission)</li>
<li>Per-table shortcodes implemented by Peter Lieverdink</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributors</h3>
<p>stleary<br />
Peter Lieverdink</p>


The Stars at Night

Stars-at-night displays astronomical data for a specified location and date.

Andrea Benzi

<p>This plugin adds a widget to display the NASA Mars Curiosity rover photos and a static block to display current sol.<br />
A good solution if you are interested in astronomy news and want to put a space picture on your website.<br />
Widget: It provide the photo, a description with the martian version of date (SOL) and the rover camera random displayed.<br />
Block: It provide just a string with the stamp of martian day at that time you put it.<br />
Very easy to configure and compatible with a lot of WordPress versions.</p>
<h4>Widget Option</h4>
<ul>
<li>Title</li>
<li>NASA API key</li>
</ul>
<h4>NASA API key</h4>
<p>The default NASA API key (DEMO_KEY) works fine but you can get one at:<br />
<a href="https://api.nasa.gov/index.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://api.nasa.gov/index.html</a></p>
<h4>Version 2.0</h4>
<p>This plugin add a static block for Gutenberg that display current sol (martian day version) of Curiosity into a paragraph tag.<br />
The date don’t change after the block is added. It’s just a print to put in your article the Curiosity sol at that time.<br />
The plugin remove the block editor for widget.</p>
<h4>Version 2.1</h4>
<p>The plugin widget retriew the last sol with photos available.</p>
<h4>Slogan</h4>
<p>To infinity and beyond!</p>


Curiosity POTD

NASA Mars Curiosity rover latest image widget & current sol static block.

The Stars at Night vs Curiosity POTD