News, tutorials and photography tips from The Photographer's Ephemeris
You may notice a new link in the header on this site: API. As part of expanding the functionality of our apps over the past year, we’ve been building out a set of web services to deliver a variety of astronomical and geospatial data. These services are already powering a number of…
Some notable changes to Photo Ephemeris Web in 3.7: account sign in is optional, a new start page, a new site tour, and free solar eclipse info for 2023 and 2024.
Our friends at Rocky Nook kindly offered the opportunity to write a short article about The Photographer’s Ephemeris to be published in conjunction with a webinar they offered last week, presented by Glenn Randall.
We just released an update to Photo Ephemeris Web, version 3.3, which includes many new features and improvements for both free, Pro subscribers, and Skyfire customers.
We’ve added a new free tool to our website - think of it as a slightly delayed holiday gift! The new Field of View tool allows you to visualize the effective field of view of different camera and lens combinations. It’s a little like The Photographer’s Transit, but for the web.
The Skyfire team has been on a roll these past few months and we’re happy to be able to share some of the fruits of all that hard work. Today, Photo Ephemeris Web has been updated to version 3.1 with a number of additions for Skyfire Plus subscribers:
You’ve probably read: there’s a lunar eclipse coming up next week on Nov 7/8 (depending on your location). It will be visible in the Americas, across the Pacific, and in east Asia, Australia, NZ. Sorry Europe, Africa…
Photo Ephemeris Web 3.0 is released today! The major change is that Skyfire is now available in the web app. Here are the key points:
Congratulations! You’ve just upgraded to Photo Ephemeris Web Pro. What next? You have a wealth of new features at hand. This post makes a few suggestions on what to check out first.
We’ve made a few improvements to our status page at status.photoephemeris.com. Here are the key changes:
We’re excited to announce that Skyfire, the weather forecasting service for photographers, is now available in beta in Photo Ephemeris Web. The Skyfire team has worked hard over the past 18 months, completely rebuilding the back end platform (the new ‘v3’ platform) to support a whole host of improvements, including:
Photo Ephemeris Web 2.8 was just released today. We’ve added a new UI component to list out the key celestial events for the year.