Your personal guide to the sun and moon. Plan ahead, visualize and predict!
About Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon)
Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) is a photography app developed by Adam Ratana.
How many times has Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) been downloaded?
Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) has been downloaded 190 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1.7 thousand times. It is ranked #3 in photography.
What is the rating of Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon)?
Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) is rated 4.76 out of 5 stars, based on 4.8 thousand ratings.
Is Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) free?
Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) costs $9.99 to download. The APK download size is 21.95 MB. The latest version available is 2.7.2. The last update was on October 25, 2025.
What are the requirements for Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon)?
Sun Surveyor (Sun & Moon) requires Android 8.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2011.
Description
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.
Recent changes: 2.7.2 - Targeting the latest Android version (SDK: 36) - Visual updates, bug fixes, and tweaks.
2.6 Major visualization update! - New 3D Renderer, multiple camera usage, among many other updates.
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I've been using this app for many years. It's been very good to map the moon/sun path and orient gardens or building structures accordingly.
★★★★★James Brocato· Oct 1, 2022
Great, I use it all the time for photography mostly, also fir sun and moon. Just installed on my new phone
★☆☆☆☆Jeff Corcelius· Nov 2, 2024
App is Inaccurate too 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. I've 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.
★★☆☆☆Overland Landscape Photography· Nov 25, 2025
I would rate it a higher, but there are no features to trigger alerts or alarms based on sun/moon events. Would be a 5 star score if I could turn on an alarm to occur X minutes before sunset or peak milky way opportunity.
★☆☆☆☆Marcel shimba· Jan 2, 2024
So annoying after spending so much money I have never been able to use this app accurately.
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