Calendar & Cycles

Planetary Hours

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Chaldean planetary hours for a date and place: 12 from sunrise to sunset and 12 from sunset to sunrise, so an hour is rarely 60 minutes. startHour and endHour are decimal local hours. Send atLocalHour (decimal local time, e.g. 15.2 for 15:12) to have the hour containing it marked isCurrent; without it no hour carries the field, because the answer is cacheable and a flag from the server clock would be stale by the time it renders. sunTimes.polarState is normal, polar-day or polar-night, and in the two polar cases there is nothing to divide, so hours comes back empty with a warning saying why.

post/planetary-hours

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.astroway.info/v1
  • URL: https://api.astroway.info/v1/planetary-hours
  • 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

datestring required
latitudenumber nullable required
longitudenumber nullable required
timezoneOffsetnumber nullable

Hours from UTC at the given moment, not minutes. Fractional zones are hours too: 5.5 for India, 5.75 for Nepal, -3.5 for Newfoundland. Defaults to 0, meaning UTC. Ignored when timezone is sent.

timezonestring

IANA zone name such as Europe/Kyiv, or auto to look the zone up from latitude and longitude. The server takes the offset that zone kept at this local date and time, summer time included, and uses it in place of timezoneOffset. A clock time that happened twice takes the first occurrence; one skipped when clocks went forward takes the offset from before the change. Abbreviations such as EST are refused. Before 1970 the tz database is not reliable for every place, so send timezoneOffset when the local clock is known.

atLocalHournumber

Local time of day in decimal hours, e.g. 15.2 for 15:12. When sent, the hour containing it carries isCurrent: true and every other hour carries false. When omitted, no hour carries the field at all: it is not false, it is unasked.

Example request

{
  "timezone": "Europe/Kyiv",
  "atLocalHour": 15.2
}

Response

Successful calculation

okboolean

Example response

{
  "ok": true
}

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