PlanIt Earth: VR Photo Planner

For landscape, travel, nature, city, night, time-lapse, star-trail, Milky Way and astro photographers: PlanIt Earth builds on everything we learned from PlanIt Pro and takes previsualization to a new level.

Ansel Adams called it previsualization: imagining the final print before the shot is taken. Seeing a scene before you travel greatly raises the odds of coming home with the photo you wanted. PlanIt Earth is built around that one idea: see the shot before you go.

What sets it apart is the photorealistic VR viewfinder. Instead of reading numbers on a map, you stand at your camera position and see the real terrain, built from satellite imagery and elevation data, with the Sun, Moon, Milky Way, stars, clouds, 3D markers and your framing where they will be. Scrub time and watch light and shadows move through your composition.

There isn't always a signal in the field. Preload offline elevation, maps and markers and keep scouting and planning offline.

Plan the light. Preview the scene. Arrive ready.

FEATURES

Photorealistic VR planning • Real terrain and horizon rendered from elevation data and satellite imagery • Photoreal 3D city backgrounds, street-level panoramas and your own photos • Aim with camera and scene pins; focal length, angle of view and line of sight • Live depth-of-field and bokeh preview: see the blur, not numbers • Aerial and drone view, immersive full screen, and an AR viewfinder for framing on site

Sun, Moon, Milky Way and sky • Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, golden hour, blue hour, twilight and astronomical darkness • Sun and Moon direction, altitude, paths and alignment timing • Milky Way Center direction, visibility and realistic sky placement, with Milky Way Seeker for the best dates and locations • Stars, planets, constellations, meteor showers, comets, eclipses, rainbows and moonbows • The Sun drawn from a time-matched NASA SDO image at its true apparent size

Alignment and shoot planning • Find where and when the Sun or Moon lines up with your subject • Search the sky across years for the conditions you want • Plan sequences, multi-day shoots and time-lapses on a key-frame timeline • Exposure guides for eclipses, star trails, the Milky Way and more • Smart auto shooting fires your camera at the planned moment • Measure distance, height, elevation and two-station geometry

Map-based scouting • Full-screen planning map with camera and scene pins and direction lines • Multiple map providers and layers, terrain, light-pollution and aurora overlays • Search locations, save markers and 3D models, record and import tracks • Offline regions: map, elevation and markers downloaded for the field

Weather and field conditions • Photographer-focused weather and forecast cards • Cloud, visibility, fog, wind, humidity, frost, dust and other shooting conditions • Aurora forecasts, solar activity, space-weather alerts, tides and waves • ISS and satellite passes, aircraft transits and rocket launches, with a transit alarm

Hardware control • Drive an equatorial mount and focuser from the phone over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and the astronomy camera through the SharpCap bridge on a PC

Plans, markers and tracks • Save complete plans with map position, pins, time and shooting setup, grouped into folders by trip, subject or place • Sign in with your PlanIt account to sync plans, markers, tracks and settings across devices

PlanIt Earth is free to explore. PlanIt+ unlocks the photorealistic VR viewfinder, the night, time-lapse, alignment, aerospace and weather modules, and offline regions, as an auto-renewable annual subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase.

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