stillphotojournalist.com » Moonrise http://stillphotojournalist.com ...Capturing life, one frame at a time Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:59:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 When and where will the sun and moon rise and set? – A common photographer’s question solved! http://stillphotojournalist.com/2009/10/when-and-where-will-the-sun-and-moon-rise-and-set-a-common-photographers-question-solved/ http://stillphotojournalist.com/2009/10/when-and-where-will-the-sun-and-moon-rise-and-set-a-common-photographers-question-solved/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:22:01 +0000 Dave Clark http://stillphotojournalist.com/?p=181 One very common question for a photographer planning a landscape shot is where the sun and moon will be setting or rising.
This question has been coming up a lot recently for me, as I will be traveling to Kauai next week to get married. Since we’re getting married on the beach in Hanalei Bay, I wanted to find the best time and location for our ceremony in order to get those glowing shots that only a good Hawaiian sunset could provide the light for. As well, I wanted to know where the sun will be setting on that day as my memory from living there tells me that it sets behind the mountains at this time of year and not over the ocean as it does in the summer.

Ironically, one of the local photographers that I know came across some software yesterday and sent the link to me without knowing that I was even looking for this info (Thanks Garry!).
The software he informed me of is called The Photographer’s Ephemeris and is currently “free” software being developed by Stephen Trainor.
While sunrise and sunset information is readily available on the internet, the location of where the sun will rise and set is not so easily found, nor is the ability to have all of this information in one easy to use application.

Using this application’s Google Maps interface allows one to pinpoint a location on a topographical map and be able to find the times and locations for the sun/moon rise and set.
Some more advanced features even allow you to find out when they will rise and set behind mountains, in the case of my wedding for instance.

Here is a screenshot of the software that I took while checking on our wedding location.
The Photographer's Ephimeris

The software works on PC, Mac and even Linux. Stephen is also working on an iPhone version as well.
Find out all of the details by visiting Stephen’s site at http://stephentrainor.com/tools

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