Timelyshot calculates the exact moment the Sun or Moon aligns with your target. Plan perfect sunrises, sunsets and golden hours.
Timelyshot adds a section for solar and lunar eclipses. Pick the exact spot on the map where you want to watch it and find out, before it happens, whether you'll really get a good view at the exact time from your location.
A map shows each eclipse's visibility band: where it's seen at its maximum and where it's barely noticeable.
We tell you the exact time of maximum and how high the Sun or Moon will be above the horizon from your spot.
Point your camera at the sky and you'll see where the Sun will be that day. That way you can confirm whether a building or a mountain will block it, especially near the horizon.
You choose what to shoot and from where. Timelyshot does the maths and takes you to the exact moment.
Mark your position and the point you want to photograph on the map: a building, a mountain, the horizon.
The app gives you the exact day and time the Sun or Moon aligns, with its azimuth and altitude.
It guides you to the shooting point with directions and a countdown so you never miss the moment.
Augmented Reality shows you live where the celestial body will be. All you have to do is shoot.
A toolkit built for photographers chasing the perfect moment.
Align the Sun or Moon with any point you pick on the map, anywhere in the world.
Discover, day by day across the year, when the Sun sits low on the horizon right over your line.
Point your phone at the sky and watch the body's path overlaid, live, before you shoot.
With the exact rise and set times and a countdown so you always arrive on time.
All your calculations, with their date, name and type, always at hand in "My alignments".
Add the moment to your calendar and navigate straight to the shooting point with one tap.
You want that shot of the Sun right behind the tower. Here's how Timelyshot gets you there.
You set your position as the photographer and the building you want to photograph. Search the city or use your location and drop the two points on the map.
Timelyshot works it out and tells you when it will happen: "In 98 days — 27 Sep, sunset, best at 19:17". It also shows the days with the Sun on the horizon and the deviation of each.
Once on location, you raise your phone and see where the Sun will appear overlaid on the real scene. Frame, wait for the countdown and shoot.
From home or already on site, you choose how to define the point you want to photograph.
Mark two points on the map: your position and the object to photograph. It's the only way to calculate without being on site.
On site, point your phone at the target and lock the direction with the phone's compass.
Use the camera to frame the target live and see the body's path overlaid on the real scene.
Your saved calculations and a gallery of cities with alignments already solved, for inspiration.
Choose what to shoot today
The low Sun, day by day
Your saved calculations
Exact days and times
Timelyshot began as a photo-tourism project in Alcalá de Henares, a UNESCO World Heritage city: a website that shows, every day, the exact time the Sun and Moon align with its monuments and bathe their façades in symmetrical shadows.
From that idea the app was born, and now it lets you calculate alignments anywhere in the world.
Visit Alcalá Foto Turismo →Seven scenes with a daily countdown, in Sun and Moon:
It calculates when and where the Sun or Moon aligns with a point you choose, so you can plan your photos in advance.
Yes, the calculations run on the server. Help content is cached so you can read it later.
Yes. You pick any point on the map, wherever you are.
You point your phone at the sky and see the Sun's or Moon's path overlaid in real time, over the scene in front of you.
It uses the camera and motion sensors. Location improves accuracy, but it also works with the magnetic compass if you don't grant it.
Yes, you can start using it for free.
On iPhone via the App Store and on Android via Google Play.
From within the app, in your profile, or by emailing us at manuel.losro@gmail.com.
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