Latitude,
Longitude &
Elevation
Red pin
Location text box Search Centre Override timezone Calendar Twilight Details Hands
Ephemeris
Locations
Ephemeris view Details view
Glossary
Time slider
Skip buttons
Daylight
saving
change
The photographers Ephemeris
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Quick Start Guide
1) Find a location by panning around the
map, or drag and drop the red pin. Click
the centre button to centre the red pin on
the map or shift-click to centre the map on
the red pin location. The rise and set lines
for both sun and moon are always displayed
on the map.
2) The Ephemeris shows sunrise/sunset/
moonrise/moonset times (plus azimuths and
phase of moon). Click the Twilight button
to see twilight times instead.
3) To choose the date use the hands or
select a different date from the calendar.
4) The time zone of the location is displayed
automatically. Click override to select time
zone manually.
5) Latitude, longitude and elevation
above sea level of the current red pin posi-
tion are displayed at the top of the map.
6) To fnd the nearest place name of the red
pin location, click the search button.
7) To search for a place name, click in the
location text box and type the name of
the place. If Google can fnd it, the red pin
will move to that location and the map will
centre on the red pin.
8) Click Locations and then + (plus) to
save your current location. Click on a saved
location and then - (hyphen) to delete it
from the list. Click on a saved location name
and then Go to centre the red pin and the
map on that location.
9) Labelled terms throughout the program
have Glossary entries. Any label that turns
red when you mouse-over may be clicked
to display the corresponding glossary entry.
10) Click Details to see sun and moon
positions throughout the day and night
at the selected location. Drag the time
slider, and see azimuth and elevation angle
information displayed numerically. Click the
skip buttons to skip to the days various
celestial events. The graph shows the appar-
ent altitude for sun and moon throughout
the day. The three horizontal lines below the
0 line represent the elevation angle of the
sun at the various twilight stages: -6 civil,
-12 nautical and -18 astronomical.
Keyboard shortcuts
E to view the Ephemeris
L to go to Locations
P or - (hyphen) for the previous day.
N or = (equals) for the next day
T to toggle display of Twilight information
D to toggle display of Details information
S to swap the positions of the red and grey pins
C to place the red pin at the centre of the current map display
Shift-C to pan the map to place the marker at the centre of the
display
Ctrl + (plus) and Ctrl - (hyphen) to zoom in and out of the map
Shift + (plus) to add new location
Left and right cursor keys to move the Details View slider
control in one minute increments click the slider frst
Shift Hold down this key to extend the azimuth lines on the map
through the marker location. This is helpful for aligning particular
landmarks, your shooting location and the direction of the sun/
moon. (Only avaialble when suffciently zoomed in, as extended
azimuth lines could otherwise be inaccurate and misleading.)
Confguration options
Units of Distance: for location elevation (metres or feet) and
distance to nearest known place (km or miles)
Default location names: select format for displayed location
name and default name provided when saving a location
Service timeout (seconds): determines the default timeout
when querying the GeoNames web services for time zone, eleva-
tion and place name. Increase service timeout value if you see
Request timeout retrying or Request timed out messages.
(The specifed value is used for time zone and altitude queries,
but is doubled internally for reverse geocoding as this service can
normally take longer to respond, particularly if the nearest known
place name is some distance from your current specifed location.)
Timezone management: not user editable. Checked if the
timezone management database is correctly installed.
Azimuth lines: user selectable colours for the lines shown on
the map indicating direction of sunrise/sunset & moonrise/moon-
set. The same colours are used in the Details display.
