$ man astro-times
/astro-times(1)
PRICE / CALL
$0.002
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
localeCATEGORY
uncategorized
STATUS
● live
NAME
astro-times — sunrise-sunset / golden-hour / civil twilight / nautical dusk / day-length / solar-noon / dawn-dusk / astronomy times
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.org/v1/astro-times
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
sunrise-sunset / golden-hour / civil twilight / nautical dusk / day-length / solar-noon / dawn-dusk / astronomy times. Computes sunrise, sunset, solar noon, day length (seconds), and civil / nautical / astronomical twilight begin & end for any latitude/longitude on any date. UTC ISO8601 strings. Wraps sunrise-sunset.org's public API — no auth, commercial-OK.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| latitude | number | Decimal degrees, range [-90, 90]. Positive north. | required |
| longitude | number | Decimal degrees, range [-180, 180]. Positive east. | required |
| date | string | Date in YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today (UTC) if omitted. | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) the astronomical times were computed for, echoed from the request. |
| location | string | Latitude/longitude pair the times were computed for, echoed from the request. |
| times | string | Object mapping each event (sunrise, sunset, solar_noon, day_length, civil/nautical/astronomical twilight begin & end) to UTC ISO8601 strings. |
| source | string | Upstream data provider, sunrise-sunset.org's public API. |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.org/v1/astro-times \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# install once claude mcp add x402 --command "npx x402-deployer-mcp" # then ask Claude Code: # "use the astro-times tool to ..."
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- localeastronomysunrise-sunsetgolden-hourtwilightsolar-noonday-length
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- locale
- price
- $0.002 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in locale
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| country-info | Country info / ISO 3166 / country code lookup / capital city lookup / currencies by country / population / region resolver. | $0.002 |
| earthquakes-recent | Earthquake feed / seismic activity / USGS / recent quakes / quake monitor / tremor data / fault line activity / tsunami alerts. | $0.002 |
| holiday-lookup | Public holidays / bank holidays / national holidays / federal holidays / holiday calendar / per-country dates. | $0.002 |
| sunrise-sunset | Sunrise sunset times. | $0.002 |
| timezone-convert | Timezone convert / IANA tz conversion / DST-aware time arithmetic / wall-clock to UTC / convert across cities. | $0.001 |
| timezone-lookup | Timezone lookup / IANA tz / UTC offset / DST status / local time at lat-lng / which timezone. | $0.001 |
| iata-airport-info | IATA / ICAO airport code lookup. | $0.005 |
| satellite-tile | Satellite imagery tile / lat-lon to satellite PNG / Sentinel-2 tile API / cloud-free satellite snapshot / agent-callable satellite imagery. | $0.005 |
SEE ALSO