Browser Goodies
Oh how I love open source stuff. Are you a Firefox user? If not, you should be so you can take advantage of handy tools like this.
In the process of hunting down nifty new extensions for the browser supreme, I discovered a dandy little add-on, perfect for we astronomically-minded types.
Meet Sun Cult — a delightfully simple, unobtrusive extension which provides you with rise & set times for the Sun and Moon from any location on Earth, along with lunar phase and other pertinent info. After install, simply select your location from the built-in list of cities, or (if you’re picky like I am), enter your longitude and latitude. You can choose where its small icon displays within your Firefox window, and to access the data, just mouse-over it to bring up the display:
Voila! Simple, efficient, and customizable — you even have the option of selecting between civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight. You can install Sun Cult by visiting this page. Don’t let the name dissuade you, there’s no kool-aid involved.
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Excellent. I just installed. Thanks for sharing.
It’s a handy little critter. Hopefully we’ll see more astro-based extensions.
Ok, ok, I’ll use FireFox when posting. Right now I have both FF and IE open. Thanks, that’s a nifty little quick extension. No, I don’t like the use of “cult” in conjunction with the Sun, nor do I like the use of “worship” with the Sun. I have the Thoreau-ian way of looking at things: simply, “Live in accordance with Nature.”
When I was four years old and walked away from the planetarium thinking that the Sun was going to blow up on us soon and the world would turn yellow-white and we’d all be vaporized, I became fond of it, or at least initially fascinated by it. When it didn’t blow up, lol, or blind me in a 1971 eclipse, it occured to me that it was more dependable than people!
Learn about what you fear.
