Nice... Thanks. Tom
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:58 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> 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). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
