Articles tagged News

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Starry skies over Castle Valley, Utah

New Seeing and Transparency Forecasts

Seeing and Transparency, along with light pollution and smoke, are two of the most important considerations for astrophotographers in determining where and when to plan a shoot. We’re pleased to be offering new Seeing and Transparency forecasts with Photo WX, our weather service for photographers.

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Screenshot showing sightline analysis tool

Sightline Analysis comes to Photo Ephemeris Web

We’ll be launching a new PRO feature in Photo Ephemeris Web later this week: sightline analysis. Sightline analysis starts by giving you an elevation profile between two points, but then goes much further to offer an invaluable tool for landscape and night photoraphy planning.

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Eclipse Paths

Meet our new Astronomy APIs

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…

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Field of View Tool

New Field of View Tool

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.

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The Selenelion Challenge

The Selenelion Challenge

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…

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Skyfire available in Photo Ephemeris Web

Skyfire available in Photo Ephemeris Web

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:

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Skyfire v3 Platform Coming Soon

Skyfire v3 Platform Coming Soon

The team at our sister company Skyfire Services LLC has been hard at work building an all new v3 backend platform this year. We’re pleased to share that it’s going to be launching soon.

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New Status Page

New Status Page

We’ve just switched over to a shiny new status page, available at status.photoephemeris.com. Status pages show whether services on which apps or websites depend are running correctly or not.

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Nature First Photography

Nature First Photography

We’re delighted to announce that The Photographer’s Ephemeris is now an official partner of Nature First Photography. I first became interested in landscape photography on moving to Boulder, Colorado from London in 2007. The spectacular landscapes of the Colorado Rockies and the desert southwest were immediately enchanting

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A new website for 2021

A new website for 2021

As you might have noticed if you’ve visited previously, we’ve overhauled the website. It’s a ground-up rewrite - probably the fifth such since the first version launched in 2010.

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what3words

what3words

Landscape and outdoor photographers love to get off the well-trodden path and explore the more remote corners of the world. Often, these places don’t have well-defined names. Or the named area covers many thousands of acres, such as a national park or wilderness area.

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