Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon‪)‬ 4+

Your Personal Sun & Moon Guide

Adam Ratana

Designed for iPad

    • $14.99

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Description

Updated for iOS 17 - over twelve years of being your personal guide to the sun, moon, and milky way!

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 features

Solar 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 site

Additional features:

- Photo Opportunities - 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 - an extremely powerful tool to search for sun, moon and milky way center positions within various constraints, for the perfectionist planner
- Widgets - plenty of configurable widgets for your home screen and today view (iOS 14+)
- 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
- Helpful video tutorials show how to use all of the app's modules and how to shoot specific types of scenes
- 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
- "Today" Widget - (for the pull-down notification center) shows rise and set times for the current location and the next upcoming sun event

- Languages: English, Deutsch, Français, 日本語, Italiano, Español, Català, русский, Norsk (Bokmål), Dansk, Nederlands, 中文 (繁體), 中文 (简体), 한국의, čeština, Türkçe, Português (Portugal & Brasil), Polski

What’s New

Version 2.8.4

- Minor fixes and improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

5.0 out of 5
30 Ratings

30 Ratings

Macaale ,

Great for solar installations

This app is proving extremely useful in positioning solar panels. The shadow setting means you can see the effect of trees or structures around your installation and position them for maximum efficiency. I would like to have the ability to import photos (eg. Aerial shots from a drone) as both google and Apple Maps have shadows that reflect the time the satellite image was taken and somewhat restrict the view of the shadow line.

N3RD-007 ,

A Must-Have App

Sun Surveyor has been a reliable staple of my photography toolkit over the years after trying many alternatives, and has what I think is the nicest UI of them all. The developer keeps the app patched and updated and it has all the features that you need for planning almost any kind of shoot. I cannot recommend it enough!

lalalalalalallall ,

Exceptional capability and value

This app is exceptional and it’s exactly what I’m looking for + more. Its not often I come across an app that’s review worthy in my books, but this ticks every box. It’s got fantastic home widgets too!

Best of all, its not an ongoing subscription which is refreshing. Overall a great addition to the photography toolkit.

App Privacy

The developer, Adam Ratana, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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