The next golden hour, to the minute and with its direction.
Choose a shooting place and Rayora works out its morning and evening blue hour, golden hour, sunrise and sunset with their directions. How long until the next photo light is shown at the top; the day chart, the sun's direction and the Moon are on the same screen. Everything is calculated on the device.
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Key features
- Next photo light
- The nearest blue or golden hour and the time until it starts (or ends); the time and direction of sunrise or sunset. A light strip shows the day's light in order.
- Day chart
- The sun's height through the day; morning and evening blue and golden hour, sunrise and sunset with their directions, solar noon. A time slider moves to any moment of the day; previous and next days, and "Back to today".
- Sun direction and Moon
- A compass with the directions of sunrise, sunset and the sun right now; the sun's height and the length of shadows relative to height. The Moon's phase, illuminated fraction, moonrise and moonset, and the next main phase.
- Calendar
- A month view with new moon, first quarter and full moon and each day's moon illumination; the morning or evening golden hours of the week starting on the selected day. The week can be exported to a calendar (.ics).
- Shooting places
- An offline list of cities (GeoNames), coordinates and "I'm here". Each place's times are shown in its own time zone, and a note can be added (for example, "face west").
- Reminders
- Which light, how long before, today only or every day. In the phone app the notification arrives even when Rayora is closed; in the browser and on the desktop, an alert and a notification are shown while the app is open. Exported to a calendar (.ics), the calendar app reminds you too.
Data processing and privacy
Rayora does its sun and Moon calculations on this device; the list of cities is built in and searched offline. The device's location is read once, only when "I'm here" is pressed; it is kept on this device and never sent anywhere. Places, reminders and settings are kept on this device (in the browser's IndexedDB storage); notifications are scheduled on the device.
Get Rayora
Try it in the browser without installation; for continued use, purchase the version for macOS, Windows or Linux.