PlanIt! User Guide Date, Time, Events, Calendar 03.Plan It Date Time Events

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PlanIt! for

Photographers

ALL-IN-ONE PLANNING APP FOR LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHERS

QUICK USER GUIDES

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Date/Time Bar

Tap to set to Current Time

Green icon means

it is at the current time

Long press to lock the time

Tap to open Event Page

Long press for Calendar Page

Long press to

show the

date/time picker

Swipe right or left to go to

Next or Previous Event

Previous Event Next Event

Current Event

“Blue hour starts” event is

happening. Any events within 5

mins will be shown here so it could

show multiple events.

Event Page Calendar Page

Date/Time Slider

Date/Time Picker

Swipe up to show the Date/Time slider. Tap also works.

When visible, swipe down or tap to hide.

Timezone Offset

It could have three colors: White means the timezone is accurate because we

got the data from network. Yellow means the timezone is most likely correct

but could be wrong near border area so use it with cautious. If your phone

doesn’t have network, it will remain in yellow. Red is very rare but if you ever

see it, it means the timezone is just a guess based on the longtitude.

There is a “Show timezone” setting in the Settings. If you can turn it off, it will

only show the timezone offset when the timezone is different from your

phone’s timezone.

The whole area is just

one clickable area

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Five Modes for Date/Time Slider

Year Mode

Month Mode

Day Mode

Show the Moon Phases

Hour Mode

Show the day/night colors and elevation angles of

the celestial objects

Minute Mode

Show the day/night colors and elevation angles of the celestial

objects. The only mode shows seconds in the time value

Tap on the left side

to go up the scale

Tap on the right side

to go down the scale

Drag left and right to

change the date or time

When dragging, the

sun/moon/star/milky way

center curves will show

up. It hides automatically

when stop dragging.

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Drawer Menu Drawer Menu

Save the current plan as a plan file

Save as the visible markers as a marker file

Change the map type

Also can be accessed from the map type button on the

top left of the map

Access Ephemeris, Event and Calendar

These three can be accessed without using Drawer

Tap the Drawer Button to show the

Drawer Menu. Or swipe from the left

edge of the screen also can show the

Drawer Menu. You can use the

second way when the Drawer Button

becomes the Go Back Button in the

Viewfinder Modes.

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Events

Event cards’ background are

colored based on the time of the

day, same colors as the hour slider

For any Sun related events,

the moon information will be

shown if it is full moon

The moon information will be shown for all

the moons for any milky way events because

any moon could have a big impact on MW

shots

We also show the time difference between the current time and the

event time. Note the current time is not your system time but the

current time displayed on the Date/Time Bar

This symbol is the

indicator for the

current time

The green border

also means the it is at

the current time. All

events within one

hour of the current

time will have some

kind of green. The

greener, the closer to

the current time.

Previous day Go back to the current time Next day

These three buttons will only be shown when scrolling

Tap the event button to

open the Events

Tap on the check box to

select the card and then you

can share the events as text

to your friends or share to

other apps or just copy to

clipboard

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Calendar

Long press on the event button

to open the Calendar

Important dates include

•new, full, and quarter moons

•meteor shower peak date

•perigee, apogee

•solstice, equinox

Useful for deep sky

photography, star-trail, or

night photography in general.

Looks for nights with 2 to 3

star rating

Useful for milky way

photography. Look for nights

with 2 to 3 green dot rating

Useful for moon photography

or just information about the

moon phases

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Ephemeris Pager and Page Indicator

There are 17 pages. Swipe left and

right to go to next or previous page.

But, that’s too slow.

Noted the color rounded rectangles

below the pager. There are 17 of

them to match the 17 pages. Tap on

one will go to that page directly.

Since the area is small, you might

miss it. If so, just swipe once to get to

the correct page which is still faster

than swiping many times.

Confused about which one is which?

Swipe down from the title bar or the

indicator to show this ephemeris chooser.

Remember the colors.

Sun and Moon: orange

Night Photography: purple

Special interests: green

Coastscape: blue

After trying it for a few times, you will get used

to tap the color indicator to go to a page

directly.

Here is how I remember all the pages

Q: Which page is the Sun/Moon Finder?

A: The fifth one in the green group

Q: How about Milky Way Seeker?

A: The third one in the purple group

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The text colors used on Ephemeris Pager have

meaning

White color: means the value cannot be edited

directly. It is most likely a value that is calculated.

Usually you can tap it to see a hint explaining what is

the value for. Long press usually also does something.

Green color: is usually a value for time. It means this

time is within five minutes of the current time.

Grey color: means the value is read-only. It is also

calculated from other values as the white color but the

difference is if tapping on it, no hint will be shown.

Light blue color: means the value is editable. It is

usually an input value for a calculation. Tapping it to

edit the value.

Text Colors

On Ephemeris pager, you can

always long press on a time

or a date value to set the

current time or date to it.

Icons for Degrees

Azimuth

•The direction of a celestial object from the observer, expressed

as the angular distance from the north or south point of the

horizon to the point at which a vertical circle passing through

the object intersects the horizon.

•The horizontal angle or direction of a compass bearing.

Elevation Angle

The elevation angle (used

interchangeably with altitude angle) is

the angular height of the sun in the

sky measured from the horizontal. In

English, both altitude and elevation

can be used to describe the height

above sea level or the elevation angle.

To tell the difference, pay attention to

this elevation angle icon. For elevation

angle, we also always put a + or –

before the value and a degree symbol

after the value.

On Ephemeris pager, you can

always long press on the

value with these two icons to

set the camera azimuth or

the elevation angle to the

value.

Icons for Ephemeris

Sun

It is usually the color one. Black-white one means the Sun is hidden from showing.

You can tap on the Sun icon on the Rise/Set or the Position page to hide/show the

Sun. Transparent one means it is below horizon.

Sunrise and Sunset

The first two are used on the pager. The next two is used in the viewfinder

Moons

Different colors are the same as the sun

Moonrise and Moonset

The first two are used on the pager. The next two is used in the viewfinder

Milky Way Center

Different colors are the same as the sun

Meteor Showers

Different colors are the same as the sun. The different icon variations are determined

by the Zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of the Meteor Showers.

ZHR >= 50 ZHR >= 10 ZHR < 10

Stars

Different colors are the same as the sun. The size is determined by the magnitude.

MG < 1 MG < 2 MG < 3 MG < 4 MG < 5 MG < 6