Newly released for Apple Iphone
Golden Hour 1.0
Category: Photography
Price: $7.99 (
iTunes)
Description:
The Golden Hour is a magical time of day for photography and now you can keep track of it wherever
you are in the world with our comprehensive and easy to use iPhone and iPod touch application that
finally consigns boring lists of sunrise and sunset times to the trash.
The web version of the Golden Hour was been voted cool site of the day by America's Digital Goddess
and has been featured by Canon Europe, PC World and a host of forums and blogs around the world.
Now available for the iPhone and more detailed than ever.
This application does not need access to the internet and is therefore great for iPod touch owners
as well.
Features.
Our easy to use interface has 4 primary tabs putting the important information at your fingertips
whether you are an architect needing to know where the sun will be on a given day or a professional
photographer planning their next photo shoot.
World Sun Clock display showing more detail than a simple day-night terminator. We colour code
regions for the golden hour, twilight and more. Tap the map to set a new location or double tap to
bring up options.
Sun Azimuth and Elevation display, find exactly where the sun will be in the sky for any time of
day. Double tap for optional current time reset.
Golden Hour display, the same great graph that our website users will be familiar with, this tab
shows the altitude of the sun throughout the 24 hours of the current day with markers for Sunrise,
Sunset and the Golden Hour. Explore any date of the year with the slider and nudge dates up or down
simply by tapping to the left or right below the horizon line. Tap above the horizon to reveal
comprehensive astronomical data including civil, nautical and astronomical twilight in addition to
the core information relating to sunrise and sunset.
Our location finder allows you to drill down through our comprehensive database of over 47,000
carefully selected locations from every country in the world. Every country or territory has a full
colour flag and a fully indexed and searchable list of locations. For each location we display the
latitude and longitude plus other useful information such as approximate population and Olsen
Timezone.
Fun Features
Features a complete years worth of the amazing NASA blue marble satellite images of earth - see how
winter and summer transform our planet as the snow comes and goes as you change dates.
Ever wondered where "First Rock" is? Improve your geographic knowledge and have a laugh at the same
time by trying to find the most improbably named places on earth. Our favourite so far is
"Breakwind Ridge".
Calculations and Accuracy
For maximum accuracy and reliability, a tried and tested C++ library developed by astronomers
performs the astronomical calculations. The library implements the high accuracy algorithms in the
definitive reference book by Jan Meeus and has been in use for over 6 years. Due to atmospheric
fluctuations, the sunrise and sunset times should be considered as accurate to within a minute for
locations between +/- 72 degrees latitude, and within 10 minutes outside of those latitudes.
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