Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, Ted, I too thought Jim's images were fantastic. He had asked me for when the moonrise was going to be where he lived (Boston) and of course the times I have him weren't very accurate :-/ Fortunately he had the company of his son for an even longer than expected time; so it turned out for the best :-) And the photos are a tribute to Jim's patience and skill. For those of you interested in software to see when the moonrise and sunset are close together, the phase of the moon, as well as a ton of other astronomical stuff, the Planetarium shareware program works with the Palm OS and is outstanding. There are many other packages out there... Here's a good link for a number of different astronomy software packages with links to each: http://www.seds.org/billa/astrosoftware.html Here's a link to the Planetarium for Palm site. It's shareware: http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets/ Michael Riechmann in his Luminous Landscape Journal has this video clip about Planetarium: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/video_journal/video_clips6.shtml Bob - --- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > I keep track of moon rise & sunset times and what I > watch for is the closest > time between the sun setting and the moon rising. > When this happens along > with a full moon it's a "do not miss this happening" > for interesting > photographs, particularly shooting over a water > situation, IE: lake, river, > ocean whatever. Hey even a duck pond! ;-) ===== Bob Adler Palo Alto, CA rgacpa@pacbell.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html