agricultural

Biodynamic daily profile

Returns a complete Maria Thun biodynamic day profile for a given date and location.

Includes:

  • Moon sign, element, latitude velocity (ascending/descending)
  • Thun day type (root / leaf / flower / fruit) with quality score (0–100)
  • Aspect modifiers with explained score impacts (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Node)
  • Activity recommendations (favorable / unfavorable / optimal tasks)
  • Void-of-course window (active status + next window)
  • Lunar phase + illumination
  • Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset (topocentric, ±1s precision)

Zodiac: Always tropical for Thun classification (per Thun methodology).
Ephemeris: DE440.

🤖 AI-optimized output available — add format=llm to reduce payload ~70%.

GET /ephemeris/agro/daily?lat=-33.87&lon=151.21&date=2026-03-15&tz=Australia/Sydney
get/ephemeris/agro/daily

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.openephemeris.com
  • URL: https://api.openephemeris.com/ephemeris/agro/daily
  • Auth: one of:
    • HTTP bearer
    • API key in header X-OpenEphemeris-API-Key
    • API key in header X-API-Key
    • API key in header X-Service-Key

Query parameters

latnumber required

Observer latitude (WGS84, degrees)

lonnumber required

Observer longitude (WGS84, degrees)

datestring required

Date as YYYY-MM-DD

elevnumber

Observer elevation in metres above sea level. Lowers the visible horizon (dip ~ 1.76 arcmin * sqrt(metres)), which moves sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset earlier and later respectively - about 6 minutes per event at 1600 m. Default 0 reproduces the sea-level result exactly.

formatstring

Output format

Headers

authorizationstring nullable
X-API-Keystring nullable
X-OpenEphemeris-API-Keystring nullable
apikeystring nullable

Response

Successful Response

_metaobject required

Calculation metadata

datestring required

Date in YYYY-MM-DD format

observerobject required

Observer location details

Changes

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