John Sessoms wrote:
At my weekly brunch this morning someone mentioned a small free-ware
application called the Photographer's Ephemeris. Requires Adobe AIR,
which I think you should already have if you're using Photoshop or
Lightroom.
http://stephentrainor.com/tools
I downloaded the program and am taking a first look - haven't even
finished reading the instructions, but I'm already impressed enough I
thought I'd pass it along.
It uses Google maps and locates a point on them. You can place the
point around anywhere you want it. It's not locked to the streets like
streetview is. I plugged in my own address and it locates the point
right in the middle of my property.
FROM your chosen point it shows a graphic line to the sunrise, sunset,
moonrise, moonset for any chosen date, along with the times, azimuth
and percentage of illumination for the moon.
There's an advanced view that allows you to show the line to the sun
and the moon for any time during a chosen date.
Want to know where you need to stand to get the full moon framed by
the mile high swinging bridge at GFM? What time and what dates?
Want to know if you can get the sunrise framed in the attic window?
You want to catch the full moon (quarter moon, new moon) rising or
setting over some landscape feature?
The program can tell you exactly where to stand (within the limits of
google maps ~ a couple of meters most places.)
The only lack I'm aware of is it doesn't appear to have a print
function, but I was told you can use "print screen" function under
Windows (or however the Mac does it) and paste it from the clipboard).
Nice find. I passed it along to the dpreview Pentax forum. Thanks.
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