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Old 13th October 2005 | 03:20
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Tim Zukas
 
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You don't need accuracy to better than a minute of time? It's hard to do much better than that anyway, since refraction can't be exactly predicted.

I'm not home now so I can't look it up myself, but Jean Meeus gave formulas in his book Astronomical Algorithms, which should suffice.
Calculating the sun's declination is easy enough as I recall... the equation of time is tougher, but still doable if you don't need it to the second. Then it's just a couple of straightforward spherical-trig formulas.
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