Shutter Scout

Shutter Scout is the night-sky photographer's field intelligence system. It reads the light, the sky, the tides, and the solar wind - then tells you straight whether tonight is worth the drive.

PREDICT - forecast before you drive

• Emberlight: sunset & sunrise color scored 0-100, hours ahead, plus a 700-mile forecast heat map with a 72-hour outlook
• Aurora Command: live solar wind (Bz, Bt, speed, density, Kp, hemispheric power) with configurable push alerts
• Substorm Mode: GOES magnetometer nowcasting to help spot short-lived substorm activity that Kp can miss
• Lightning Tracker: live strikes on the map, color-aged over 30 minutes, with strike notifications up to 50 miles from your current location so you can plan around a storm. This is a photography-planning tool, not a lightning-safety warning system - always follow official guidance.
• A live 3D magnetosphere you can orbit
• Milky Way core windows, bioluminescence potential, rainbow watch, comet tracking, and a single Conditions Score for tonight

PLAN - from ephemeris to framed shot

• Night Sky Planner: verdicts and altitude charts for the Moon, the core, and 25+ deep-sky targets
• Live View AR: the moon's position and tonight's path projected onto your camera - with landmark alignment for that moon-behind-the-lighthouse shot
• Sky Tonight: a photographic star map with tap-to-identify
• Sky Cover: an animated weather map built for astrophotographers - clouds, CLARITY (our transparency score that includes wildfire smoke), fog, radar, lightning strikes, wind, and smoke
• Tides with king-tide flags, Scout Nearby spot finder, dawn & dusk briefings written for shooters

CHASE - built for the field at 2 AM

• Chase Mode: a red-light dashboard plus live routing to dark skies
• Red Light mode, app-wide, for low-light shooting
• Signals inbox: your alerts, explained when you open the app
• Widgets, Siri Shortcuts, custom app icons, and Ask Scout - the on-device assistant

TRANSPARENT BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No third-party ad tracking. Forecasts say "estimate" when they are estimates and "stale" when data is old. Weather and space data come from sources such as NOAA, USGS, and Open-Meteo, with redundant fallbacks.

FREE & PRO Free: tonight's headline verdict, active weather and space-weather warnings, the Signals inbox, Red Light mode, and the Field Manual. Everything else is Shutter Scout Pro - the full Today briefing (spot-by-spot weather, tides, bioluminescence, rainbow watch, and the daily report), Sky Tonight, the Night Sky Planner with Live View AR, Darklight, Emberlight, Aurora Command with Chase & Substorm modes, Sky Cover with the Lightning Tracker, Scout Nearby, and all premium alerts. Pro is available as an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription - the yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial - or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period and can be managed in your App Store account settings.

Plan better. Shoot bolder.

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