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Osint Daily cover for SunCalc, under Geolocation & imagery, published 24 Oct 2026. The right side crops the listing capture. Sun position and shadow length on a map.

01 · Product name

SunCalc

Sun position and shadow length on a map.

Published by Torsten Hoffmann.

In short

SunCalc is the sun-position map at suncalc.org, published by Torsten Hoffmann. On 24 Oct 2026 the page printed no dollar price. A view set to 40.6892, -74.0445 at 15:00 UTC-4 showed sunrise 07:17:02, sunset 18:03:05, altitude 28.27°, and a shadow length of 1.86 m. The legal disclosure names Torsten Hoffmann in Eisenberg, Germany. The first load centered on a detected coordinate, which is not repeated here. Geolocation and imagery is the right category. A shadow length is a model, not a clock in the photo.

Product pricing strategy

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Free

SunCalc printed no dollar price on 24 Oct 2026. The map, the solar-data table, and the footer have no plan names and no SPDX field. The footer is ©Torsten Hoffmann 2015-2026. That is the copyright line. It is not a license identifier. The legal disclosure names the operator and a town. It does not state a fee. Donate is a control, not a price. The words SunCalc Pro subscription appeared in a Discover more block on one load and were absent on the next, so they are not quoted as a SunCalc plan. The shadow length of 1.86 m and the distance 148,787,429 km are model outputs for 15:00 UTC-4 at the coordinates in the hash. They are not fees. The German site sonnenverlauf.de was linked and was not opened as a second price list.

Utility and features

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The page title begins SunCalc and lists sunrise, sunset, shadow length, and sun position. The footer is SunCalc.org ©Torsten Hoffmann 2015-2026. The hash https://www.suncalc.org/#/40.6892,-74.0445,14/2026.10.24/15:00/1/3 printed Computation path of the sun for 15:00 UTC-4. The lines were Dawn 06:49:24, Sunrise 07:17:02, Culmination 12:40:20, Sunset 18:03:05, Dusk 18:30:42, daylight 10h46m3s, distance 148,787,429 km, altitude 28.27°, azimuth 219.47°, and shadow length 1.86 m at an object level left blank. The geodata block said height 0 m, latitude N 40°41'21.11'', longitude W 74°2'40.2'', and time zone America/New_York, DST, EDT. A second hash set the same coordinates to 09:00 UTC-4 at zoom 15. Those morning figures are a different frame and are not copied into this paragraph.

  • No dollar price. The map prints solar figures and a copyright line for Torsten Hoffmann. It does not print a plan price or an SPDX field.
  • 15:00 UTC-4 at the set coordinates. Sunrise 07:17:02, sunset 18:03:05, altitude 28.27°, azimuth 219.47°, shadow length 1.86 m, distance 148,787,429 km.
  • The first center was the visitor. The unprompted load used a detected coordinate. Those numbers stay off this page. The legal disclosure names Eisenberg and is not a fee.

The legal disclosure in the page source says information in accordance with section 5 TMG and names Torsten Hoffmann in Eisenberg, Germany. The street line is on that disclosure and is not reprinted here. A link on the page points at sonnenverlauf.de for the German site and at a SunMoonTrack API on torsten-hoffmann.de. One load’s Discover more block included the words SunCalc Pro subscription. A later load of the same site did not show that line. It is treated as an ad unit, not as a SunCalc price. Donate, Help, and Print are controls on the page. No checkout printed a dollar amount.

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    Set the coordinates yourself. Do not quote the location the browser detected.

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    Keep one time of day on its own solar lines. A morning frame is not the 15:00 shadow.

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    Call the shadow length a model output. It does not date a photograph by itself.

Caveats

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The first load centered the map on a coordinate the browser detected for this visitor. Those solar figures are not the example in this listing. The figures above belong to the hash that was set to 40.6892, -74.0445 at 15:00 UTC-4 on 24 Oct 2026. A second time of day produces a different altitude and a different shadow length. Do not mix the two frames.

The page computes a shadow from the sun position and an object level. The object-level field was blank, and the shadow line still printed 1.86 m. That number is the page’s model for that moment. It does not prove when a photograph was taken. Shade Map is a different listing. SunCalc does not say it is Shade Map. No SPDX field was printed.

Screenshots

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SunCalc at 15:00 UTC-4. SunCalc at https://www.suncalc.org/#/40.6892,-74.0445,14/2026.10.24/15:00/1/3 on 24 Oct 2026. Sunrise 07:17:02, sunset 18:03:05, shadow length 1.86 m. Captured 2026-10-24. Source
SunCalc at 09:00 UTC-4. SunCalc at https://www.suncalc.org/#/40.6892,-74.0445,15/2026.10.24/09:00/1/3 on 24 Oct 2026. A different hour from the 15:00 frame. Morning figures stay on this frame. Captured 2026-10-24. Source

Potential use cases

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  • The browser’s detected center is about to become the example. On 24 Oct 2026 the first load placed the map on a visitor coordinate. Those solar figures stay off this page. The quoted lines belong to the hash set to 40.6892, -74.0445 at 15:00 UTC-4: sunrise 07:17:02, sunset 18:03:05, altitude 28.27°, shadow length 1.86 m.
  • A morning frame is about to be mixed with the afternoon shadow. A second hash set the same coordinates to 09:00 UTC-4 at zoom 15. That frame has its own altitude and its own shadow. The 1.86 m line is the 15:00 model. The page printed no dollar price and no SPDX field.
  • The shadow length is about to date a photograph. The page computes a shadow from the sun position and an object level. The object-level field was blank and the shadow line still printed 1.86 m. That number is the model for that moment. It does not prove when a picture was taken. Shade Map is a different listing.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

The detected center is quoted

The unprompted load used a coordinate the browser detected. The listing’s figures are the hash at 40.6892, -74.0445, 15:00 UTC-4, on 24 Oct 2026. Quoting the detected center publishes the visitor’s place and the wrong solar lines.

Questions

Is SunCalc free?

The page printed no dollar price on 24 Oct 2026. There is no SPDX field. The footer is ©Torsten Hoffmann 2015-2026. A Discover more line that said SunCalc Pro subscription on one load was absent on the next and is not a plan.

What did the 15:00 view print?

At 40.6892, -74.0445 on 24 Oct 2026 the page printed sunrise 07:17:02, sunset 18:03:05, altitude 28.27°, azimuth 219.47°, and shadow length 1.86 m. The time zone line was America/New_York, EDT.

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