Solar Eclipse Timer 4+
Solar Eclipse "Talking" Timer!
Foxwood Astronomy, LLC.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
On Eclipse Day: 1. Get into the path. 2. Geolocate. 3. Load the contact times. Get "talked" through the eclipse! The 2024 eclipse is only $1.99 as an In-App purchase.
The Solar Eclipse Timer app was developed by me, an expert eclipse chaser and eclipse educator, to help people get the most enjoyment out of observing and photographing a total solar eclipse. It's a free download to test and learn the features with an in-app purchase of only $1.99 to buy the 2024 eclipse. Equal to the cost of a single pair of eclipse glasses and just as important!
The app's unique feature is that it announces the countdowns to the contact times out loud. It makes announcements to remind you to observe interesting eclipse phenomena like temperature changes, lighting changes, animal behavior, shadow bands, umbra approach, and more. It tells you when it is safe to take your glasses off and when to put them back on. There are spoken reminders for the MAX eclipse, looking for planets and stars, and observing the horizon. You won't miss a thing because I become your personal eclipse astronomer, talking you through the eclipse!
It is so easy to use! Basically a "Two Tap Setup." Get into the path; 1 Tap to Geolocate. 2. Tap to Load the Contact Times. That's it! The app geolocates to find your position in the path and then calculates your precise contact times. It does not require internet access to do this. You are now timing the eclipse with me as your personal astronomer guide!
In collaboration with Fred Espenak (Mr. Eclipse), there is a new feature for 2024 called Photographer's Mode. In this mode, all spoken announcements are about the eclipse timing relative to the contact times. There are only three other essential reminders: two remove your solar filters, max eclipse, and replace solar filters. This mode was designed specifically for eclipse photographers.
#1 ECLIPSE TIMING APP It was the #1 eclipse timing app used during the 2017 total solar eclipse that crossed the United States. It was used successfully for solar eclipses in 2019, 2020, 2021, and, most recently, 2023, in Australia. It was featured in Sky and Telescope Magazine in 2002, 2003, 2017, and 2022.
FREE DOWNLOAD TO TEST AND ONLY $1.99 FOR THE 2024 ECLIPSE
Know its benefits for Eclipse Day. Watch a built-in app tutorial that explains all of the app's functions. Watch a built-in eclipse observation site practice session to hear the app working during an eclipse!
WORKS IN REMOTE LOCATIONS
The app does its calculations internally. It does not require cell service or an internet connection to work. It only requires a GPS signal or manually entering GPS coordinates for the calculations to occur.
I PROVIDE THE TWO BEST TOOLS FOR ECLIPSE PREPARATION!
The Solar Eclipse Timer app is coordinated with my solar eclipse preparation book, "Eclipse Day - 2024 and More! How to enjoy, observe, and photograph a total solar eclipse." This unique book has its chapters organized by the progression of the eclipse on eclipse day, and the chapters also follow the sequence of announcements by the app. See my website, www.solareclipsetimer.com, for more information about the book.
OTHER FEATURES
Partial Eclipse Timing Mode - It can also time the eclipse as a partial eclipse if you are not in the path of totality. It displays your maximum percent coverage and then continuously shows the progress of the eclipse. The announcements are altered to be appropriate for your maximum eclipse percentage.
This app Is Ad Free! This app DOES NOT track user data in any form.
ALWAYS USE EYE PROTECTION DURING THE PARTIAL PHASES OF A SOLAR ECLIPSE! OR EVEN WHEN IT IS BRIGHT! NOT DOING SO CAN CAUSE EYE DAMAGE!
We are NOT liable for misuse of the app causing inaccurate timing or the lack of eye safety precautions during the observation of a solar eclipse.
The "glasses off" and "glasses on" statements are guides based on the calculated contact times. The timing can be affected by your phone's clock and the shape of the shadow due to the edge of the lunar limb. Use the Adjust buttons for Lunar Limb variation times adjustments. Glasses should be ON if it's bright!
What’s New
Version 4.0.31
Programming to maintain access to the 2024 data set in the very rare situation when a phone gets turned from off to on and there is no internet available when it gets turned on.
Ratings and Reviews
Awesome app
Fantastic app with great audio, video and data. Top marks. MUST have
Worked Well
Just used this for the US 2017 eclipse. We were in the path of totality and it worked perfectly. The audio prompts at the various contact points were exactly what I was after. UI could do with a few tweaks and tidy up but this is minor. Overall did the job well. Thanks.
Your go to app for eclipses!
This is your go to app for Solar Eclipses! Look no further. I have used a few over the years and this one has everything in one place. Kudos to Foxwood Astronomy team for putting this together. I recently got this and four other timers for the April 2023 Exmouth solar eclipse. Solar Eclipse Timer won out, and offered service above and beyond expectation eg with less than an hour to get to Totality I needed to check some fine settings and the team got back to me within minutes with great support and suggestions. It has been developed by Gordon, who is a solar eclipse expert and educator and it shows. He has done a book, which I only discovered with an hour to go, but definitely check it out.
It’s a well thought out bit of software and functionality with exactly what you need for your eclipse preplanning and shooting.
The timer app itself is multi faceted. The features I really like are:
- App video tutorials
- Precheck phone functionality to make sure all the bits are working – audio announcements etc. very handy.
- Remote location calculations – calculations done on the phone doesn’t require internet to work
- Practice session video
- GPS Data Screen – you can be very specific to where you actually are set up
- Partial phase shooting schedule – 10 timed shots before and 10 after totality. Great for making a sequence.
For the shooting of the eclipse, there are audio announcements so you don’t have to set alarms! There are audio announcements preceding first contact, through the partial phases, totality, including environmental observations. I am hoping Gordon adds an option to include the partial phases schedule if you want…. Hint hint.
Highly recommended.
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Foxwood Astronomy, LLC.
- Size
- 131.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017-2023 Gordon Telepun
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Hybrid – 4/20/23; Australia $2.99
- Total – 4/8/24; USA, Mexico $2.99
- Total - 7/2/19; Chile, Argenti $2.99
- Total – 12/4/21; Antarctica $2.99
- Total - 12/14/20; Chile, Argen $2.99