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    The atmospheric refraction at the horizon shifts altitude by · f80c17ab
    Pablo de Vicente authored
    - 34 arcmin = 0.5667 degrees. This value changes if the observer
    is above the horizon, or if the weather conditions change.
    
    For the sun we have to add half the angular sie of the body, since
    the sunset is the time the upper limb of the sun disappears below
    the horizon, and dawn, when the upper part of the limb appears
    over the horizon. The angular size of the sun = angular size of the
    moon = 31' 59''.
    
    So for the sun the correction is = -34 - 16 = 50 arcmin = -0.8333
    
    This same correction should be applied to the Moon however parallax
    is important here. Meeus states that the correction should be
    0.7275 P - 34 arcmin, where P is the moon's horizontal parallax.
    He proposes a mean value of +0.125 degrees if no great accuracy
    is needed.
    
    Changed "if" condition, because I had exchanged the Sun and the stellar
    cases and added a bigger comment explaining why we use these values.
    
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