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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.
We’re delighted to introduce Photo WX, our new weather service designed especially for photographers. You can now access weather maps designed especially for photographers, directly from the site.
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.
The annular eclipse is coming up this weekend, on Saturday Oct 14, in fact. We know many of you are planning to photograph it. And if not this eclipse, then definitely the next total eclipse on April 8 2024…
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.
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:
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:
We’ve recently added some capabilities to Photo Ephemeris Web Pro to make it much easier to plan shots which align the Sun, Moon or Galactic Center with a man-made object - typically a tall building.
A couple of updates for November. North America forecasts have been available in TPE for iOS 4.10 for a few weeks now. Next up, we’re adding Europe to v3. This will be available in a forthcoming app update (4.11) which is currently in beta testing.
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.
We’re delighted to announce the availability of 3D maps in Photo Ephemeris Web PRO
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.
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
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.
If you like to stay ahead of the curve, you might be interested in checking out the upcoming 2.0 version of the TPE Web App, which we’re calling Photo Ephemeris Web.
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.
TPE for iOS was updated to version 4.7 last month, in readiness for the release of iOS 13. Here’s a quick run down of what’s new.