Moon question

Hi, I'm looking to plan some photos of around Dublin and Wicklow in the next year. Would anyone have any suggestions for how I would find out when the moon is due to be visible at north, South, East and West?

jfSDAS

Hi Dónal,

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/ will give you Moon rise and set times (plus the Sun rise/set) along with a graph tracing it's height during the day. The Moon will not appear to your North though as that is not possible from here.

https://www.calsky.com/ will generate a massive amount of data for various phenomena such as the Moon near a bright planet/star, or whether you'll see it as a thin crescent (which can be quite dramatic).

Definitely install a planetarium program (via app store) on your smart phone or Stellarium (www.stellarium.org) on your laptop/desktop. That will allow you step through the year to find where the Moon will be in the sky and what time. Important to do that in tandem with the timeanddate.com site tables as phase from Full Moon to New sees the Moon rise later and later in the night. Stellarium also allows you import photos of your local horizon so you can see exactly how the scene you want to compose will look.

My astronomy calendar for 2020 downloadable as a 2.5 MB pdf from https://bit.ly/35bSto3 will also give some advice

HTH,

John

Pat Dunne

Good advice from jfSDAS.
Also get yourself a good weather app. As most interesting astronomy related events are generally fraught happenings, due to the good old Irish weather.

rolion

Dónal wrote: »

Hi, I'm looking to plan some photos of around Dublin and Wicklow in the next year. Would anyone have any suggestions for how I would find out when the moon is due to be visible at north, South, East and West?

Hello,

What kind of equipment you plan to use !?
How portable are they?

What location you have in mind ?

Good luck !