Plan your Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset shots

[fiznatty]

This is very cool.

http://stephentrainor.com/tools

This software allows you to find any location on earth (it's integrated with Google Maps) and learn where the sun and moon positions will be for any date and any time of day.

You can basically plan a shot months ahead of time. Figure out when the moon will line up behind a building (or thermal feature), or when the light of sunset will hit that valley just perfectly. Amazing stuff.

btw- you have to download Adobe Air to use it.

Max

[kalamitykatie]

Along the same lines, has anyone used the Helios app for iPhone/iTouch?

~Katie

[Bogo]

My Garmin GPSmap 60CSx will give you the moon and sun rise and set, plus had a graphic display for their position for any location you put in. Of course you need the lat/lon for the place.

The Naval Observatory has some web pages for calculating this data. All referenced to their atomic clocks and with all known corrections included. Their system allows entering from a list of cities or a lat/lon pair.

What do I do, I just use a spreadsheet on my ancient PDA. I formerly did astronomy so I know the equations to get a good enough answer.

[Bogo]

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

The US Naval Observatory has added a few calculators to their set. Including celestial position calculators.

[gnpackn]

Are you coming around to my side Max?

I have been using the Nat.Geo. maps to do this for years (but not nearly as pretty of an interface). My Garmin does it too.

As for Helios I have not used it; but have heard good things from some very talented photographer friends.

Now if you mix this knowledge with http://primetimes2.com/ for wildlife then you will be onto something

Great tool thanks Max.

[Bogo]

Now if you mix this knowledge with http://primetimes2.com/ for wildlife then you will be onto something

Cool. The software and book sound interesting. Especially the book as I can do my own programming.

[DanS]

This is very cool.

http://stephentrainor.com/tools

This software allows you to find any location on earth (it's integrated with Google Maps) and learn where the sun and moon positions will be for any date and any time of day.

You can basically plan a shot months ahead of time. Figure out when the moon will line up behind a building (or thermal feature), or when the light of sunset will hit that valley just perfectly. Amazing stuff.

btw- you have to download Adobe Air to use it.

Max

Cool stuff Max,
Thanks!