Anyone know how you can get the times and position of the sun in the sky?

[GoingUp]

Sunrise and Sunset I can find out easily enough. What I want is when the sun will be at the peak of the sky tomm in Auburn Hills MI 48326.

I have to take some pictures outside tomm for a wedding and I don't want any long shadows or my friends to be either backlit or squinting into the sun.

Anyone know where I can get this info?

 

[Steve]

Local weather office?

 

[laurenlex]

Sun angle calculator

 

[GoingUp]

Thanks laurenlex, but I dont understand the stats. All I want is to know when its exactly above me.

 

[Steve]

You could also look up a local astronomy society.

 

[Trygve]

U.S. Naval Observatory - Complete Sun and Moon Data

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
All I want is to know when its exactly above me.

Hm. would've responded sooner, but I typed my reply into the login box

You are in maryland, which means it will never be exactly above you. Use a fill flash and shoot the wedding party around 9-10 am.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Thanks laurenlex, but I dont understand the stats. All I want is to know when its exactly above me.

Exactly above you? Probably never in Michigan.

Edit-What difference does it make anyway? Are you going to stand there and make everyone wait until the precise moment when the sun is overhead?

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Thanks laurenlex, but I dont understand the stats. All I want is to know when its exactly above me.

Exactly above you? Probably never Michigan.

Hm. Yea .. MIchigan

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Thanks laurenlex, but I dont understand the stats. All I want is to know when its exactly above me.

Exactly above you? Probably never in Michigan.

Edit-What difference does it make anyway? Are you going to stand there and make everyone wait until the precise moment when the sun is overhead?

I just wanted the sun as high in the sky as possible to make the shadows as short as possible. Thats all.

 

[GoingUp]

thanks for the naval site... what does sun transit mean?

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
thanks for the naval site... what does sun transit mean?

That'd be when the sun is as high as possible and the shadows the shortest. ("noon" on a sundial.)