Local Solar Time Display

[Lisias]

Hi,

There's a Plugin that shows the current (local) Solar Time? 

I want to plan my activities on different planets/moons using the Sun as reference. Usually, electric hungry activities would be executed near the local midday to take advantage from the higher solar light incidence on the solar panels.

"Early Bird" helps when I want to wait to the sun rising, but more than often I want to be alerted when a vessel (in any planet) reaches a specific local solar time (usually 10:00 AM, so I would execute the electric intensive activities until local 14:00, and the rest of the daylight would be reserved to charge batteries for the night).

[cyberKerb]

Sounds like this would be a better fit as a parameter added that KAC could use to set alarms for sunrise on bodies other than Kerbin.

It has been raised last year in this post and is being considered as @TriggerAu has mentioned. It is listed as a github issue #103, so it's on the to-investigate list (so to speak)
If you're able to help grok the maths required for it to work, I'm sure it would help contribute to it being worked on.

Edited May 25, 2018 by wile1411

[Lisias]

6 hours ago, wile1411 said:

Sounds like this would be a better fit as a parameter added that KAC could use to set alarms for sunrise on bodies other than Kerbin.

Early Bird already plans to integrate to KAC - currently, I'm not exactly sure about how the best way to do that:

• Contributing to Early Bird in order to implement the planned integration
• Add the feature directly to KAC

Early Bird already handles all the math (including provisions for tilted axis planets), so keeping this functionality on it is appealing - I'm a Follower of the Sacred UNIX way. :-)

But adding the feature directly into KAC would save the installation of one extra add-on, and we would have a one less point of failure - as it appears to me that add-ons long term maintenance can be an issue for this eco system.

Well... It appears that a short-term solution is not available yet. Time for the Plan B. :-)

Thanks.