compute_panchang

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Computes the panchang — the five limbs of the Hindu almanac — for one civil date at one place: tithi, nakshatra with pada, yoga and karana, EACH CARRYING THE EXACT UTC AND LOCAL INSTANTS IT BEGINS AND ENDS, plus vara, sunrise, sunset, day length, and the lunar month in both amanta and purnimanta reckonings. Use it for the tithi, a day's nakshatra, when a nakshatra or yoga ends, an ekadashi or purnima, or "today's panchang in <city>". The four end times are usually what the user actually wants, and a name alone never gives them. DELEGATE THIS RATHER THAN DERIVING IT: a tithi is not a day but the interval in which the Moon gains another twelve degrees on the Sun, running 20-26.8 hours (mean 23.6) from any clock time. WHICH CIVIL DAY IT NAMES is set by reading the tithi running AT THAT PLACE'S OWN SUNRISE, so one date's published panchang differs by a whole tithi between two cities — an answer derived without a place is not weaker, it is a different day's. Nakshatra about 20.8 to 27.2 hours, yoga about 19.5 to 25.2 hours, karana about 10 to 13.4 hours. A latitude with no sunrise that day is refused, not approximated. CITATION: required. See server instructions.