I'd like to find something that can give me moon rise and sunrise sunset information while on photo trips. I've looked into ipod and iPhone services, the iphone isn't really an option for what I want to do. Is there a product that can give me this information based on where I am photographing?
I like to use The Weather Network. They have local moon/sun rise/set data, radar and satellite maps, lots of weather stats, and even weather forecasts.
I have a very old (as technology goes) eTrex GPS. They still make it and it is less than $100. It works as a GPS of course plus give sun and moon info for your location. I still like to us a compass for navigation just for fun but it works for that to. It is an eTrex by Garmin and I'm sure more expensive models have the same info but this is what I have experience with.
Ditto Todd's advice re: the US Naval website. It's all I use to acquire azimuths and altitudes.
Note that they don't account for Daylight Savings Time. That's why I use it in conjunction with a calendar at Sunrise/Sunset.com, which incorporates DST and shows the sunrise/set and moonrise/set times along with lunar phases at a quick glance.
James, does your Garmin eTrex GPS give you azimuth (angle to the earth) data as well as sunset and rise times? I asked at the local GPS store a while back, and they thought that the basic units did not.
I use free software Ephemeris by Jonathon Sachs - comes in a Windows PDA and Windows desktop version: http://home.comcast.net/~jonsachs/#Ephemeris 1.0. All you need to do is enter date, latitude and longitude, so it is perfect if you don't have internet access but can read a map or a GPS.
Not sure if any GPS unit provides solar (or lunar) azimuth data, Peter.
Posted by James Hersey on May 11, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Peter,
I was wrong , Thinking of something else the eTrex only has basic info. I had my notes on a trip and thought I got all my data on the gps but I didn't. It took me pulling it out to remember.
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11 replieshttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/
Note that they don't account for Daylight Savings Time. That's why I use it in conjunction with a calendar at Sunrise/Sunset.com, which incorporates DST and shows the sunrise/set and moonrise/set times along with lunar phases at a quick glance.
My GPS gives me sunrise/sunset times (pretty standard I think), which has come in handy many times.
http://www.sunrisesunset.com/usa/
Just choose the state and the next page will allow you to choose the city.
I was wrong , Thinking of something else the eTrex only has basic info. I had my notes on a trip and thought I got all my data on the gps but I didn't. It took me pulling it out to remember.