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Plan your Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset shots

Postby fiznatty on Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:48 pm

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.

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Re: Plan your Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset shots

Postby kalamitykatie on Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:47 pm

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

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Re: Plan your Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset shots

Postby Bogo on Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:11 pm

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.
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Re: Plan your Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset shots

Postby Bogo on Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:42 pm

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

The US Naval Observatory has added a few calculators to their set. Including celestial position calculators.
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Re: Plan your Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset shots

Postby gnpackn on Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:46 pm

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.
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Re: Plan your Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset shots

Postby Bogo on Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:26 pm

gnpackn wrote: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.
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Re: Plan your Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset shots

Postby DanS on Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:28 pm

fiznatty wrote: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!
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