iOS – Sun Surveyor – Updated
Sun Surveyor predicts Sun & Moon positions (azimuth, altitude, time) with a 3D Compass, Map View, Augmented Reality View and a Details Ephemeris. Sun Surveyor is useful for film and photo location scouting, architecture, solar panel positioning, gardening, real estate, film grips, Earth Science geekery, and more! Plan for every sunrise and sunset! This popular app is finally here for iOS.
This app has just been updated with bug fixes and German and Italian translation. This is a free update, if you have previously purchased this app, if not you can download it below.
This app retails for $5.99/£3.99 and you can download it here.
Features
– Sun & Moon Bearing and Altitude, Sunrise & Sunset, Shadow Ratio, Moon Rise & Set, Moon Phase & Illumination %, Twilight Times (Civil, Nautical, Astronomical), Summer and Winter Solstice Paths, Golden Hour and Blue Hour Times
– 3D Compass – A 3D projection of Sun and Moon positions and events overlaid onto a compass representing the device’s bearing and orientation in the world
– Augmented Reality View – View through the device’s camera, visualize where the sun and moon will be in the sky, or when they will move behind a building
– Map View – A top-down view of Sun and Moon event positions overlaid onto an interactive map
– Time Machine Slider – Visualize events for a single day, or watch the days get longer and shorter and the Moon’s path get further and closer throughout a year
– Offline Usage (excludes Map View)
– Enter Coordinates, Save & Load Locations with no data connection or GPS available
– Send screenshots and details
– Sun shadow ratio and projection, visualize the shadows cast from the Sun
– Local, Auto-Detect and Manual TimeZone selection
– Compensation for Magnetic Declination
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
