Soonlight
Rehearse the sunset.
Predict the position of the sun and moon and plan incredible photographs.
Built for the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse.
- Lens-accurate viewfinder: your exact sensor and focal length on true sun and moon discs, terrain silhouettes out to the horizon.
- Shot Planner: where to stand and when, solved to the arcminute against a 5 m elevation model.
- Walk & Fly scouting: the site in first person, or from the air around your own tripod.
“Doesn't support two suns.”
The photograph, before you take it
The viewfinder renders your exact field of view: sensor aspect, focal length, teleconverter, lunar parallax, refraction, horizon flattening. If it looks tight here, it will be tight on the camera.
Stay aligned while time moves
Turn on Hold Alignment and drag the clock. As the sun sinks, Soonlight slides your position along the ground so the sun stays pinned behind your subject, minute after minute.
Walk around the block
Walk the terrain in first person at eye height, composing with your lens's true frame floating ahead. Hold E on a subject, the sun or the moon to lock on, and the view keeps it centred while you move.
Scout it in three dimensions
Fly around your own tripod and see exactly what the lens covers, drawn as a gold frustum over the terrain.
Eyes on target
Hold E on any subject, the sun or the moon, and you lock on: both you and the camera keep it centred while time plays and you move. Watch the rig swivel to follow from the air.
Direct from the sky
Fly above your scene and place the camera and your subjects from the air. Point where you want them, click, and they drop onto the real terrain below.