Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon)

Your personal guide to the sun and moon. Plan ahead, visualize and predict! 1yo5c

App info 4b1o2k

2.6.5
Photography
May 11, 2025
175,920
Adam Ratana
$9.99
Android 6.0+
Everyone
Get it on Google Play

App description 6u3n1f

Android App Analysis and Review: Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon), Developed by Adam Ratana. Listed in Photography Category. Current Version Is 2.6.5, Updated On 11/05/2025 . According to s reviews on Google Play: Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon). Achieved Over 176 thousand Installs. Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) Currently Has 5 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.7 Stars

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 Com, 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 Com portions of this app make use of your device's com. Some devices may not have a com.

What's New 1b5z3l

2.6.5
- Minor fixes and tweaks.

2.6
Major visualization update!
- New 3D Renderer: Live View, 3D Com, and Street View modules use a new 3D renderer with massive improvements to performance and visual quality - better Moon, Milky Way, celestial sphere rendering, etc.
- Live View can now use the various device cameras if device manufacturer allows.
- Street View has a motion toggle to simulate being on site.
- 3D Com and Street View now allow for toggling different grid visualizations.

Rate and review on Google Play store 10411j

4.7
5,038 total
5 87.1
4 6.0
3 3.9
2 0
1 3.0

Total number of ratings 4ti3m

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Total number of installs (*estimated) 2z2c

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Recent Comments 151d27

W. P. 6p6q2d

This is a great app for finding out where sun, moon and even the milky way will be visible during any calendar day and at any location. The position of the sun in the sky (and i guess the moon) is not always 100% accurate but the app has a nice feature that you can correct it manually in live view mode. As photographer, I would like to see a weather layer integrated (e.g. cloud cover or precipitation)

Jeff Corcelius 175z43

App is Inaccurate to often. I use the app to help me set up my time-lapse and aim my camera for sun rises. The app is off by a lot every time. It's been so inaccurate that I'm missing the shot not just by a few degrees but several degrees. I paid for the full version to increase my accuracy but in the past several months it's ruined my efforts. Ive been restarting the app and making sure the gps is on. I've triple and quadruple checked. I've calibrated over and over. App has gone down hill.

Zoe Larkin 3w4y28

I've been using this app for years, and it's never let me down. As a wedding photographer I am often tasked with working in tricky and new situations with challenging light. With this app I can track the position of the sun at any given time, giving my clients magical light that I wouldn't have been able to find without this app. It is so simple, you just hold up the phone to the sky and using VR its tracks the position of the sun in a line, using your camera! So cool and nifty. Well worth it.

Bob G 692v1m

20211031. So far working as expected. Best feature is its integration with Google Maps and Street view. It really helps simplify planning your set up to target alignments. I'd like to see a better sighting com layout.Get familiar with it first before your first shoot. Unexpected benefit. If you can adjust your driving time, use this app to avoid driving into the low sun. Also great for aerial mapping to pick high contrast times and shadow length.

A Google 44z2e

Very helpful for planning timelapse sequences for sunrises & sunsets. I liked it on my Nexus 6P, but needed to calibrate the com fairly regularly. This was true for other apps that use a com setting, and quite easy to do via the "Calibrate the com" setting in Google Maps.The sensors in my new Pixel 4XL are much better at keeping the com accurate. The app's "future view" slider really helps when using the Pixel's new astrophotography feature. I use it to set up my tripod and align everything for capturing a suitable foreground during the day, then just go out to attach the camera and get the shot at the predicted time. (Much appreciated when it is -25C!)

Cathleen Olive Shea 20631h

March 2023. Update: This is still in my top three apps for dialing in astrophotography planning. 2018: I have a few sky apps. I keep coming back to this one, though. It's the best organized, best com, most accurate information for my needs. Thank you. Over a year now as a happy customer. :) Update: 8 Apr 18 ...still my go to app. Three days from an epic trip to New Zealand. Sun Surveyor, and Google Earth are my two main tools for shot planning. Best app! Thank you.

A Google 44z2e

This app gives so much detailed information. It's all you need if you are interested in the celestial bodies. If ever they find the time for it, they might add the planets. Just for extra fun and navigational preparations. 2 things might be added: length of the day plus number of minutes more (or less) than shortest day.

Dave Araki 2c3i37

Great app for predicting sun positions. I use it all the time for film shoots. The calibration mode is so great to have since comes are often affected in the city or in buildings, and when worse comes to worst, the street map mode gives practical confirmation of uncertain observations. Only upgrade might be to allow enlarging hour indicators or change their color/give a opaque window, because when looking at the sun in live view, sometimes it's very difficult to read the hours. Thx

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