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Which PLANNING app do you use MOST for your nightscape photography? (Patreon)

Published:
2025-12-05 00:41:06
Imported:
2026-06

Poll

Which PLANNING app do you use MOST for your nightscape photography?

  • PhotoPills 47
  • Planit Pro 14
  • Stellarium 1
  • The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) 22
  • Google Earth 0
  • Star Guide 0
  • Using several of these apps to plan 26
  • Using an app not mentioned here 2
  • Not using an app to plan 0
  • 2025-12-05
  • 112 votes
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Comments

Ken Smith

PhotoPills for Milky Way orientation; google earth for foreground options. "Light Pollution Map" for light pollution...Bortle 3 or lower geographic locations. Clear Outside for real-time bortle info and Windy for satellite and cloud model forecasts. HRRR model (via web) for smoke forecasts. But Photopills is my primary.

Flo Beau

Planit Pro is definitely the app I use the most. Complete and very powerful, by far the best planification tool, with new functions like aurora and weather simulations. Then I play a lot with Google Earth to scout from home before real life scouting. I also use several forecast app as Windy (owning a premium account as I use it for wark as well), Clear Outside and MeteoBlue for weather planification. During shooting, I sometimes use the exposure Pills from Photopills as a quick way to calculate the correct long exposure settings from the test shot settings on site.

Royce Bair
>>195753132

More nightscape photographers are turning to Planit for powerful planning. MetroBlue is amazing for weather forecasting.