Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon)
by Adam Ratana
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Your personal guide to the sun and moon. Plan ahead, visualize and predict!
Features Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon)
Sun Surveyor takes the mystery out of the sunrise, sunset, and moon phases, allowing photographers and filmmakers to scout the best locations, plan effectively, and get the perfect shot.The Live Camera View, Interactive Map (with Street View), 3D Compass, and detailed Ephemeris provide a wealth of information about the largest natural light source in the galaxy, as well as the moon, and milky way:- View augmented reality projections of the sun and moon paths, pinpoint the time the sun or moon will be at a particular location in the sky- Predict and plan for the golden hour, blue hour and every sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset- Prepare night photography shots with the Milky Way & star trail featuresSolar Industry (PV) Professionals, architects, real estate agents, and gardeners will also find a wealth of empowering interactive features:- Show clients the quality and quantity of seasonal sunlight at a given location- Understand potential shade of surroundings and discover any obstructions- Create images of the summer and winter Solstice & Equinox paths for a siteAdditional features:- Photo Opportunities (new!) - an interactive listing of critical times to help inspire and generate shot ideas; including the full moon looming low in the sky during magic hour, total darkness for stargazing, and more- Position Search (new!) - an extremely powerful tool to search for sun, moon and milky way center positions within various constraints, for the perfectionist planner- Visual time machine - take a quick glance at the light for a day, or dial in desired compositions easily- Moon distance, age, apogee, perigee, super moon predictions- Sun shadow information - calculate the length of shadows cast by objects- Share details and locations with clients and colleagues- Offline usage (excludes Map View, Street View) - enter coordinates, save & load locations with no data connection or GPS available- Measure distance, and difference between elevations, and vertical angle differentials with the Map view- Import and export Google Earth .kmz/.kml locations- Magnetic declination compensation- Widgets - 9 varieties of sun and moon widgets for your homescreen** NOTE: the Live View and 3D Compass portions of this app make use of your devices compass.
Some devices may not have a compass.2.4.23:- Minor fixes and tweaks.2.4.22:- Style update: updated the app to use Material Design 3- More Android 12-related updates and fixes
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What Our Users Say
Don't just take our word for it. Here's what our users have to say about our Android app.
"Awesome photo app. I use it all the time."
Mark A Johnson
"Very comprehensive features. Works great."
E Holmes
"The coolest app I have. It let's me know where the sun is going to be. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so a lot of the times, this app is the only time I can see the sun. Seriously though, this is really a handy and fascinating app: I found the sunniest spot for my garden, and the best area for a photograph of the moon."
Erich Hayner
"Great tool to tell where you sun, moon, and milky way will be."
Brent Barber
"Love this app. So much information for planning my photo and video shoots"
Lowell Gould
"Nicely made app! But it bought it to perhaps create horizon files for use with PV-Software. I'd like to be able to log the heading and azimuth of objects like the LOG function in the IOS-App "Theodolite". At the moment I'd have to create a ton of Screenshots from all the points i'd like to log and then create the file manually. Would it be possible to add a feature like this? I'm sure this would help a lot of PV-planners :) thank you!"
Beep Boop
"Curious about astronomical alignments in my home town. Able to take photographs with all details included. Not possible with any other compass tool."
A Google user
"The coolest app I've seen in a long time!"
Jennifer Nystrom
"Superb little app!"
Steve Roberts
"Very useful application"
Muhammad Hanif Javed
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Available for Android 8.0 and above