Posted by Robert Fisher on February 17, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Saw this link posted on another forum and thought folks here might be interested as well.
It's a side called Golden Hour and it allows you to track the movement of the sun throughout the day at any location on the globe. So if you're planning a trip and want to know when 'Magic Hour' will be, plug in your location, choose the date(s) and it'll pop up the information for you. It's pretty cool. And it's free!
Posted by Wim Reyns on February 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM
That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing
now a phone version would totally rock !
Wim
Posted by Steve Foss on February 17, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Robert, thanks for that link. I bookmarked it. With all the info and aids for landscape photogs on this site, I might turn into a landscape guy yet.
Posted by Kent Staubus on February 17, 2009 at 11:50 AM
For me, the "magic hour" begins an hour after sunset, and lasts until dawn.
Kent in SD
Posted by Brad Kargus on February 17, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Bookmarked. Thanks Robert!
Brad
Posted by Buck Ward on February 17, 2009 at 6:50 PM
I added it to my sun & moon bookmarks. It's cute. I wish it had azimuth
Posted by Roger Moffatt on February 18, 2009 at 5:34 AM
Hi all - many thanks for the kind comments, I'm the site developer and it's been great to see so much enthusiasm for it.
Buck - you say it would be great if it had azimuth - do you mean you would like to see that for each 1/2hr plot of the sun? Did you notice that it is displayed for the sunrise and sunset times when you hover over the golden hour? Or perhaps you'd prefer a graphical representation with compass points? - If people think that would be particularly useful I'm more than happy to code it as the astronomical rountines I have under the hood can certainly calculate it OK.
My aim is to try to make it a genuinely useful site for photographers like myself (you'll find me on flickr under the username rogermoffatt) so if you have thoughts as to extra features you would like, I'm more than happy to consider them.
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6 repliesIt's a side called Golden Hour and it allows you to track the movement of the sun throughout the day at any location on the globe. So if you're planning a trip and want to know when 'Magic Hour' will be, plug in your location, choose the date(s) and it'll pop up the information for you. It's pretty cool. And it's free!
now a phone version would totally rock !
Wim
Kent in SD
Brad
Buck - you say it would be great if it had azimuth - do you mean you would like to see that for each 1/2hr plot of the sun? Did you notice that it is displayed for the sunrise and sunset times when you hover over the golden hour? Or perhaps you'd prefer a graphical representation with compass points? - If people think that would be particularly useful I'm more than happy to code it as the astronomical rountines I have under the hood can certainly calculate it OK.
My aim is to try to make it a genuinely useful site for photographers like myself (you'll find me on flickr under the username rogermoffatt) so if you have thoughts as to extra features you would like, I'm more than happy to consider them.
Thanks again
Roger Moffatt
London
UK