astronomically useful

Geoscience Australia has a range of online tools that just about anyone, sometime, somewhere, should find very useful.

From their Astronomical Information webpage, you can:

• Compute your own Sunrise/Sunset times
• Compute your own Moonrise/Moonset times
• Compute your own Sun and Moon Azimuth & Elevation
• Browse Moon phase data
• Browse Planet data for the major Australian cities

UPDATE: A colleague referred me to another useful reference page, this one offering metric conversion tables and ready reckoners.

—READ MORE—