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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: AFairley on December 04, 2010, 06:51:59 pm

Title: Need site/applet that shows sunlight direction on Google maps
Post by: AFairley on December 04, 2010, 06:51:59 pm

Does anyone know of a site where the direction of the sunlight at a given date and time is shown on Google maps?  (I don't care about azimuth.)

Thanks

Title: Re: Need site/applet that shows sunlight direction on Google maps
Post by: aduke on December 04, 2010, 08:03:23 pm

"The Photographers Emphemeris" at http://stephentrainor.com/tools/ (http://stephentrainor.com/tools/) shows both sun and moon azimuth in google maps as well as sunset, sunrise, moonset and moonrise times and the various twilight times.

I've been using it for several months now. It is an Adobe Air app. I have it on my laptop, useful for times without an internet connection.

Alan

Title: Re: Need site/applet that shows sunlight direction on Google maps
Post by: AFairley on December 04, 2010, 08:37:14 pm

Alan, thanks! That is exactly what I had in mind.  I see it also is available for the iPhone.

Thanks again.

Title: Re: Need site/applet that shows sunlight direction on Google maps
Post by: Brian Carey on December 21, 2010, 06:33:20 pm

How about following the sun, moon and stars.

http://blog.briancareyphotography.com/2010/10/pre-production-software.html

Title: Re: Need site/applet that shows sunlight direction on Google maps
Post by: EduPerez on January 01, 2011, 04:22:54 pm

With Google Earth, you can see the position of the sun; very nice to plan for sunrises / sunsets.