Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon)
$8.49
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About 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 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 (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 device's compass. Some devices may not have a compass.
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 (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 device's compass. Some devices may not have a compass.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
2.4.9
- Minor fixes and improvements
2.4.8
- Help: Added section with links to video tutorials and how-to lessons from our partners at BlueHour Photo Ventures. These show how to use various aspects of the app. More to come!
- Fixed: Rotation issues on various tablets
2.4.9
- Minor fixes and improvements
2.4.8
- Help: Added section with links to video tutorials and how-to lessons from our partners at BlueHour Photo Ventures. These show how to use various aspects of the app. More to come!
- Fixed: Rotation issues on various tablets
Price update Price changed from $7.99 to $8.49.
More downloads Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
Price update Price changed from $6.99 to $7.99.
Price update Price changed from $6.49 to $6.99.
What are users saying about Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon)
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This app has been on my smartphone since back in my S3 days. Great for studying shadows, sun and moon directions. And it's always being updated by the developer. A must have!
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I use Sun Surveyor all the time as a photographer and Android user. Can't say enough good things about how useful it has been for me when out in the field as I plan a specific shot.
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I use this for photography, orienting my camp, and navigation. So smart and intuitive to use. Definitely worth paying for it.
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Violates privacy with permissions it does not need to run!
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This is such a great app! It's feature packed, and looks slick.
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Great application for survey
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Great App
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Excellent app and the best of its kind. I use it for gardening planning.
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Great app for photography, especially useful for planning moon photography or milky way shots. I only wish it had meteor showers and ISS passovers as listings in photo opportunities. 3D compass is pretty accurate. Definitely worth the purchase.
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I have a few sky apps. I keep coming back to this one, though. It's the best organized, best compass, most accurate information for my needs. Thank you. Over a year now as a happy customer. :)
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Really cool app. I work outside. Nice to know when the sun comes up. Planetary data would be a nice addition.
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I just want one more thing sunset and sunrise notification location-based
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Most accurate sun tracker I've found. Indispensable for tech scouting.
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I love this app its my first go to when planning a location shoot, best app of its kind by far highly recommended
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Excelent for photography
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Still my most useful app, but I would like to see improved cataloguing of favorites and the ability to filter by state, country or in local area (5, 20, 50 and 100km radius). This would mean that a country/state drop box setup like you use on online forms.
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The best app to this kind of information. Super complete and the interface is fantastic.
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Night photography is. Much easier,great app.
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Brilliant app!
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Best app for photographers
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Fantastic tool
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This is an excellent app of its kind, the only drawback from me is the extremely small fonts on the widgets... I wish there was a way to change it, as it's barely readable for me, and certainly not easy to check what you need in a glance.
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Superb app, well thought out and presented. The information is accurate and makes photo shoot planning a breeze
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If sun or moon position will make or break your shot, then, get this app! It's a great piece of software; well-thought out and intuitive. Super live view feature. Point it at the scene to get the sun/moon paths overlaying the image. Strong search features by address. Good maps and compass integration. Comes with its own ephemeris for golden and blue hours, so you don't need a separate app for that info. Developer is very helpful and responsive..
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After just a short time looking through this app, I already know it is worth far more that the few £'s it cost. The fact that I can plan a landscape shoot, or any shoot for that matter, when the sun is in the perfect spot is just awesome. It all works so easily, too. I'm not sure how I'll use some of the features, but I have no doubt that they're there for a reason.
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Great for permaculture designers, landscapers, architects, and gardeners. It's hard to believe that I live in an age where I can just slap down $10 on something that turns my little pocket computer into a machine that will show me, overlaid on an image of the place I'm standing, the exact location of the sun at any point in the year. Astounding. Once upon a time they built huge stone buildings and kept careful notes for years just to figure out this stuff.
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A very useful app and has grown so much since I've purchased it. Even seems to use less battery than ever before!
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Absolutely fantastic. Do not hesitate if you are in the market for something to help plan for photography.
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Best program I have used for Android. Much more complete for planning a photographic adventure than The Photographer's Ephemeris.
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Wonderful UI and augmented reality feature that helps me plan my nightscape photography projects, because prior planning prevents poor performance.
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Brilliant app on my Lg g5, just got the Lg g6, having real issues, map won't load, compass is randomly all over the place, cheers
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Cant get it to work screen overlay dont know how to change
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It is crashing everytime I want to use it.....return my money or fix the issues
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Extremely detailed and looks terrific. I love this app.
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Used to love it. ..but very inaccurate. OK so look at a place like Durdle Door and find the galactic centre of the MWay for a date ...OK. .then switch to 3d view and boom it's gone and moved to a totally different location. Photo Pills here I come.
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Really enjoy using the app on my Samsung Note 3. Seems accurate and is very clear. Glad we have developers in Pittsburgh! :^)
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Great app, but please help: when callibrating what is a 3d figure 8? How is it different to a normal figure 8? Thanks
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Great app. Very reliable. A must have for drone or still photography.
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Good app for beginners Good app. for beginners
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Best!