Sun, Moon & Milky Way almanac
Plan your shoots without leaving the app. The almanac brings the sun’s light, the moon’s phases, and the Milky Way’s galactic core together in one place, computed entirely on your device — no connection required.
What you get
- A Sun timeline for golden and blue hour. For any day, see exactly when golden hour, blue hour, and civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight begin and end — morning and evening — alongside sunrise, sunset, and the day’s length.
- A moon-phase calendar that filters for shootable nights. Tap Milky Way nights and the calendar highlights the evenings when the galactic core is up in a truly dark sky with little moonlight to wash it out — so you can spot the best nights of the month at a glance.
- A nightly timeline. For any night, see moonrise and moonset alongside exactly when the galactic core becomes visible and when it sets — interleaved in one chronological list.
- Plan in one tap. Tap any event — a golden hour, a moonrise, a core rise — to start a shoot plan for that moment. If you’re viewing a saved spot, the plan uses that spot; otherwise pick a spot (or let the app create one at your current location).
Times match where you are
Open the almanac from anywhere and it uses your current location and its local time. Open it from one of your saved spots and it switches to that spot’s location and timezone — so the times are always right for where you’ll actually shoot.
Works offline
All of the astronomy is calculated on your device. The almanac works with no signal — in the field, far from anywhere.
Availability
The Sun, Moon & Milky Way almanac is part of Viewpoint Pro.