Shutter Scout

Tonight: go or stay home? Shutter Scout reads the sky, the moon, the aurora, and the tide — then gives it to you straight. All on device. No account, no cloud.

Shutter Scout is the night-sky photographer's complete 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 - the science of knowing before you go

• 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 honest, delivered-when-it-matters alerts
• Substorm Mode: GOES magnetometer nowcasting to catch the burst that Kp misses
• A live 3D magnetosphere you can orbit
• Milky Way core windows, bioluminescence potential, rainbow watch, comet tracking, and one honest 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), smoke, and radar
• 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
• True night-vision Red Light mode, app-wide
• Signals inbox: every alert explained when you open the app
• Widgets, Siri Shortcuts, custom app icons, and Ask Scout - the on-device assistant

HONEST BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Forecasts say "estimate" when they are estimates and "stale" when data is old. Weather runs on NOAA-grade sources with redundant fallbacks.

FREE & PRO The core experience is free forever: your Today briefing, Sky Tonight, Darklight dark-sky maps, tides, and the Field Manual. Shutter Scout Pro unlocks the planner suite, Live View AR, the Emberlight map, Chase & Substorm modes, Sky Cover, and every alert - by subscription (7-day free trial on yearly) or a one-time lifetime purchase.

Plan better. Shoot bolder.

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