Stop guessing when the light will hit.

• Precision Light Tracking: Get exact times for sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, and moon phases.

• Light Quality Forecasts: Short-range predictions assessing if an upcoming sunrise or sunset will be vibrant or muted.

• Solar Eclipse Planning: Fully integrated solar eclipse tracking with interactive path maps and built-in, hands-free audible notifications that alert you of critical eclipse phases (like totality starting/ending) while you are busy .

Plan your night shots with unprecedented clarity.

• Milky Way Virtual Scout: The dedicated Milky Way card helps you understand exactly when the galactic core will be visible and at what angle. Combine this with the Virtual Scout tool to visualize the Milky Way's arc in relation to your planned composition before you even leave the house.

• Light Pollution Data: Ensure your skies will be dark enough by toggling the built-in Dark Sky overlay right on your planning map.

The ultimate tool for seascape photographers.

• Beach Reflection Windows: AerScout's unique algorithm automatically calculates windows when low tides perfectly overlap with Golden Hour for ideal wet-sand reflections.

• Tide & Wave Outlooks: Simplified, human-friendly coastal event cards that digest WorldTides and Open-Meteo marine data so you know if conditions are Great, Possible, or Unlikely.

• Local Knowledge Tuning: Every beach behaves differently. Fine-tune your favorite saved locations with your own 'local knowledge' to improve accuracy on tide behaviors and wave heights.

Don't just look at the temperature—look at the atmosphere.

• Atmospheric Snapshots: Clear, daily breakdowns and hourly forecasts optimized for visibility and sky mood.

• Event Scanners: Automated outlooks that detect specific atmospheric events like fog, cumulus patterns, cumulonimbus, snow, and frost/hoar frost.

Your personal catalog of shooting spots with advanced data visualization.

• Extensive Map Overlays: Visualize shooting conditions directly on the map. Toggle layers for Dark Sky (Light Pollution) to find the purest astrophotography spots, track US Fall Foliage progress, or view detailed solar/lunar direction angles.

• Saved Locations: Save spots via integrated Google maps searches or manual coordinate input. Add personal notes, tags, and keywords.

• KML Import: Easily import existing location pins from your other planning workflows.

Let the conditions come to you. Don't waste time constantly refreshing forecasts to see if conditions align—AerScout will tell you when they do.

• Rule-Based Notifications: Set up custom alerts for your saved locations. Be notified automatically when perfect beach reflections align, when heavy fog is rolling in tomorrow morning, or when specific wave thresholds are met.

• Event Timers: Set automated timers for sun events so you don't miss the critical window of light.

Tools to use when your camera is on the tripod.

• Camera Calculators: Built-in ND filter calculators and star points (NPF or 500-rule) calculators tailored directly to your specific camera's sensor profile.