Mobile apps for sunrise, sunset, and moon timing using GPS
Asked 7/27/2010
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I'm looking for a mobile app that can calculate sunrise, sunset, twilight, moonrise, moonset, and moon phase based on my current location from the phone's internal GPS. This is mainly for planning landscape photography, where timing and light direction matter. Are there any good apps for this?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
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I think an application called "The Photographer's Ephemeris" might be what you are looking for. It's available for iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X.
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Yes. Several apps mentioned by photographers do this well.
The most commonly recommended option is The Photographer’s Ephemeris, available on multiple platforms. It’s designed for photography planning and can help with sun and moon timing based on location.
Other options mentioned are LightTrac and Sun Surveyor. LightTrac is useful not just for sunrise/sunset times, but also for showing the direction of the light throughout the day, which is especially helpful for landscape and architectural planning.
Sun Surveyor was recommended for Android and includes sunrise/sunset, golden hour, blue hour, map-based planning, and an augmented-reality view showing the sun’s path. It can also use either a manually entered location or your current GPS location. LunaSolCal was also mentioned as an Android option/widget for quick access to sun, moon, and twilight times.
So yes—apps that match your requirements exist, and for photography planning, tools that also show sun/moon direction can be even more useful than simple rise/set times alone.
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