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Solar Tracking the Sun, Using a GPS


How to make a Simple Solar Tracker


Using an Arduino and NEO-6M GPS  

And 7 segment LED.



Resulted print out:-


Location not available  --  Waiting for GPS Data

Date: 0/0/2000

UTC Time: 00:00:00

Local Time: 8:00:00


Location not available  --  Waiting for GPS Data

Date: 17/03/2023

UTC Time: 03:16:03

Local Time: 11:16:03


Latitude: -33.123456

Longitude: 117.123456

Altitude: 290

Elevation = 54.90

Azimuth = 26.42

Zenith angle: 35.10

Date: 17/3/2023

UTC Time: 03:18:57

Local Time: 11:18:57



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