Sunvane Golden Hour
Zovo v1.0.0
Sun times & shoot planning
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Description
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Plan photography with golden hour time, sunrise sunset times, blue hour and twilight times for a city and local date. Sunvane Golden Hour calculates morning and evening light windows, solar noon, day length, and sunrise and sunset direction. Use the interactive card to change a city or date. Plan photography golden hour shoots for 1 to 31 days, then download an ICS calendar with one event per light window and a CSV table. Compare day length between two dates, or use a year for its equinoxes and solstices. Local times use IANA time zones and daylight saving changes. Missing polar events are reported. Golden hour means sun altitude −4° to +6°; blue hour −6° to −4°. Sunrise/sunset use −0.833°; civil, nautical and astronomical twilight use −6°, −12° and −18°. Windows crossing local midnight are clipped and marked. Examples: golden hour calculator for New York, NY, on 06/21/2026; evening shoots in Los Angeles, CA, starting 10/12/2026 for 7 days. Limits: a flat horizon at sea level; hills, buildings and weather change the real light. Accuracy is about one minute below 66° latitude and uncertainty increases near polar transitions. City coverage is population 50,000+ plus Tromso; dates 1900–2100. Day length is daylight within a local civil date. City matches are ranked by population; the first is used and other matches are listed so country or US state can narrow it. Files do not change a calendar. Local clocks follow the host IANA time-zone database; future rules may change. City data adapted from GeoNames (https://www.geonames.org/), licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Language: English · Automatically detected from descriptions.
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From the developer’s listing and package; capabilities are not independently tested. Package observed Nov 3, 2026.
Declared capabilities
- Interactive
- Read
Declared limitations
- General photography technique does not require a solar calculation.
- Weather forecasts are outside the solar calculation scope.
- Photo editing does not require solar times.
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This plugin does not sell products or process payments.
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Skill instructions
golden-hour1.12 KB
--- name: golden-hour description: Calculate local sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, twilight and day length for cities; plan photography shoots with ICS and CSV files. --- Use `find_sun_times` for a city and local date. Use `plan_golden_hour_shoot` for a start date, 1–31 days and morning/evening/both. Use `compare_day_length` with two dates, or a year for local equinox and solstice dates. Pass dates as YYYY-MM-DD. Resolve cities by name, optionally country or US state; do not ask for coordinates. The largest matching city is selected and alternatives are reported. If no date is supplied, use the current date in America/New_York and explicitly state that assumption. Give the matched city, IANA time zone, requested times and downloads. Golden hour uses altitude -4° to +6°; blue hour -6° to -4°. Missing polar events do not occur on that date. Times assume a flat sea-level horizon; hills, buildings and weather change the observed light. Accuracy is about one minute below 66° latitude. City table covers population 50,000+ and dates cover 1900–2100. Midnight-clipped windows are marked. Files do not modify a calendar.
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Release notes
Initial release: local solar times, light windows, shoot calendar and CSV downloads, daylight comparisons.
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Package details
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- Package license
- Proprietary
- Package author
- Zovo
- Keywords
- See keywords
- Declared availability
- No country restrictions declaredDeclared regions; live availability may differ.
- Listing translations
- de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR, ja-JP, pl-PL, pt-BR
- Getting started skill
- ./skills/golden-hour/SKILL.md
- Commerce declaration
- Does not support commerceThis does not establish whether access is free or paid.
- Review scenarios
- 5 positive · 3 negativeScenario counts, not test results.
Declared capabilities
- Interactive
- Read
Package observed Nov 3, 2026.
Technical details
- First seen
- Oct 27, 2026 · 06:00 UTC
- Last seen
- Nov 3, 2026 · 18:00 UTC
- Collection status
- Collected
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