Plan the shot before you drive.
OwlPlot is a photography planner for golden hour, blue hour and the Milky Way. See sunrise and sunset times, sun position, moon phase, aurora forecast and light pollution for anywhere you shoot â then plan the shot with AR, exposure calculators and a shot planner. Free, no account, and the astronomy works offline.
KNOW WHEN TO GO
âĸ Golden hour and blue hour, morning and evening, to the minute
âĸ Sunrise, sunset, solar noon and every twilight phase
âĸ Moonrise, moonset, phase and illumination
âĸ A 0-100 score for right now, from cloud, rain, visibility and wind
âĸ The coming nights ranked, so you can pick the good one
FOR THE MILKY WAY
âĸ When the galactic core rises, where it will be, and how high it gets
âĸ Astronomical darkness â when the sky is genuinely dark, not just dim
âĸ Moon interference, because a bright moon ends the session
âĸ Bortle sky darkness estimated for every spot you save, from
satellite light-pollution data, so you know what you are working with
âĸ Seeing and transparency worked out from the forecast model
POINT YOUR PHONE AT THE SKY
âĸ AR view places the sun, moon, planets and the Milky Way on the real scene
âĸ Scrub forward or back twelve hours and watch the arcs move
âĸ Draw your lens's field of view on the sky before you unpack the bag
âĸ Plan a panorama: overlap, frame count, sweep
WORK OUT THE SHOT
âĸ Tonight's Recipe â ISO, aperture and shutter for what is actually up
âĸ NPF and 500-rule star trails, ND filters, timelapse intervals
âĸ Hyperfocal, depth of field and focus stacking
âĸ Moon framing: how big the moon really is at your focal length
LINE IT UP
âĸ Alignment planner: the next 30 days of the sun or moon behind a landmark
âĸ Shot plans with a leave-by time, calendar export and a reminder
âĸ Eclipses for two years, ISS passes, meteor shower peaks
ON YOUR HOME SCREEN
âĸ Widgets in three sizes with a live countdown
âĸ An ongoing notification counting down golden and blue hour
ON THE COAST
âĸ Swell height, period and direction, with wind read against the beach
âĸ Tide state and water temperature from the nearest reporting buoy
âĸ Ten-day outlook, day and hour picking
BUILT FOR THE DARK
âĸ Night vision turns the whole screen red so a glance at your phone does
not cost you the half hour your eyes spent adapting
âĸ Dark throughout, with extra dimming below the system minimum
HONEST BY DEFAULT
âĸ Free. No account, no ads, no subscription
âĸ Sun, moon and Milky Way maths runs on your device and works offline
âĸ When the weather service is unavailable, OwlPlot says so rather than
showing you yesterday's numbers as if they were today's
Weather by Open-Meteo. Light pollution from VIIRS / Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines. Sky darkness is an estimate and you can override it on any location.
Golden hour, Milky Way, aurora & moon planning. Free, offline, no account.
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