Calendar & Cycles

Algol Minimum

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Find the nearest minimum brightness moment of Algol (Beta Persei), the eclipsing variable star, within a date range.

post/algol-minimum

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.astroway.info/v1
  • URL: https://api.astroway.info/v1/algol-minimum
  • Auth: API key in header X-Api-Key

Query parameters

fieldsstring

Comma-separated dotted paths, relative to data, to keep in the response. A path is applied to every element of an array, so planets.name means the name of each planet. Paths that match nothing come back in _fields_unmatched; a list where nothing matches at all is a 400, because an empty object would be a confident wrong answer.

precisioninteger

Round every non-integer number in the response to this many decimal places. Integers are left alone, because an id is not a measurement. Ecliptic longitudes ship with fourteen decimals by default; 2 is about a tenth of an arcminute.

Request body

startDatestring required
endDatestring required
longitudenumber nullable

Response

Successful calculation

okboolean

Example response

{
  "ok": true
}

Changes

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  • 8ab5a768b521Revision changes
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    • warning

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    • info

      added the optional property / to the response with the status

    • info

      added the optional property /// to the response with the status