Moon Table Rise Set Angles?

[Jerry Lee]

Hi all,

Preamble:
Im a photographer (not astro) and I enjoy taking photos that incorporate the rising and setting moon during its various phases. I posted here a while back looking for info to calculate moonrise/set times and directions.

I have since (at your kind advice) been using Cartes Du Ciel for this purpose. It gives me all the data I need, but it can be tedious to go in day by day, highlight the moon, write down the details etc.

My Goal:
What would be perfect for me, is if I could find a program that would generate a table of information for me for a range of dates.

My ideal table would have

date:
time moonrise:
angle of moonrise: (i.e. 60degrees etc)
time of moonset:
angle of moonset:
percent illumination:

So obviously this table would be differenct depending on location. Ideally I guess what I was envisioning was some kind of software that would create such a table, and then allow me to print it, or send to excel for further manipulation.

So does such a thing exist? What are your alternative suggestions to accomplish this.

So far I have been using cartes du ciel, i enter the date I am interested in, click on the moon, then it gives me the info. But this is tedious. Ideally I would like to know what the data is for every day of the year without having to do so much work in cartes.

Thanks a million in advance.

[Jerry Lee]

ok.. i found i can make that table by going to

[Registered users can see links. ]

so a few things...

1. when I use the exact same lat/long and altitude that I use in cartes du ciel, the times of rise set are really close (within a minute or two), but the angles disagree by as much as 4 degrees. So which one is right, cartes or the navy data?

2. Can someone help me know how to export this to excel, so each data has its own cell. When i right click in IE, it gives an option to export to excel, but when it does so, the data does not work.

thanks again,

[farklemairgle1]

I've got a program I wrote, and it seems to agree with the Navy data. I have not tried cartes.

There may be an easier way, but I can get the data into Excel by doing the following:

Highlight and copy the data. Paste it into Notepad (Wordpad doesn't work).

Save it as a txt file.

In Excel File > Open and choose txt as file type. Open it, choose delimited data, press Next, choose "Space" option. Click Finish.

[tonynotbaloney]

I've taken pictures like that before, where I'd compute when the Sun or Moon would rise or set against something from a certain place. Here's a page that has the Sun setting against the Farallone Islands using this technique.

I hope you post some of your pictures.

[Jerry Lee]

worked like a charm

thanks

[sallupat]

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