🔭Observer Parameters

When requesting for location and/or date-time related data, Observer parameters must be sent in the request.

Observer Parameters include the current observer's location and other information. The casing of the properties changes from camel case to snake case when doing a GET request.

Parameter	Required	Description	Sample Value
longitude	Yes	Longitude of the observer's location, as Float	-84.39733
latitude	Yes	Latitude of the observer's location, as Float	33.775867
elevation	Yes	Elevation from the sea in Meters as Number	50
from_date / fromDate	Yes	Starting date as Date. When doing a GET request from_date must be used.	2018-12-20
to_date / toDate	Yes	Ending date as Date. When doing a GET request to_date must be used.	2018-12-22
time	Yes	Observer's time as Time	08:00:00

Time and Timezones

Astronomy API treats the time requested, as the observer's time. It finds the timezone of the user based on the location specified by longitude and latitude. The returned times will be as same as the time zone requested.