Not Weather. Opportunity.
ShotScout scores weather, astronomy, tides, and terrain against every location you save, and tells you the one thing that matters: whether it's worth leaving the house — before your alarm even goes off.
Currently in beta. Waitlist members get priority access and a free trial at launch.
Location
Glen Coe, Scottish Highlands
Cloud Cover
15%
Golden Hour
6:42 AM
Moon Phase
Crescent
Overall Conditions
Excellent for landscape photography
ShotScout isn't a weather app. Weather apps report conditions — cloud cover, wind, tide — and leave you to work out whether they add up to anything. ShotScout does that work for you: it combines weather, astronomy, tides, and terrain into a single score that answers one question — is it worth grabbing your camera and going?
Good light doesn't wait for you to finish comparing forecasts. By the time you've cross-referenced three weather apps and a moon calendar, the window's closed.
Day, Night, and Celestial Events are three separate emails, each independently scheduled by you to land whenever you actually need it — from golden hour landscapes to deep-sky astrophotography.
Sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and blue hour — timed to the minute for your exact coordinates, plus the weather read that decides if it's worth setting an alarm.
Moon phase, Milky Way visibility, and a Bortle-scale read on how dark your sky really is tonight — scheduled separately so it can land well before you head out into the dark.
Aurora activity, meteor showers, planetary alignments, eclipses, and ISS passes — a fully separate alert stream that fires the moment a rare event enters your window.
Save up to 25 spots anywhere in the world. Every Day, Night, and Celestial report scores and ranks all of them, so whichever email lands, the best shot of the day is the one at the top.
Also included in every report
£10/month — less than a coffee a week, for skies you don't waste.
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Everything you need to know about ShotScout.
Three separate reports — Day, Night, and Celestial Events — each independently scheduled by you to land whenever you actually need it, not one bundled digest. The Day Report covers precise sunrise/sunset timing, golden and blue hour windows, and weather analysis covering cloud cover, visibility, and wind. The Night Report adds moon phase, Milky Way visibility, and a Bortle-scale light-pollution read for your exact spot. Celestial Events is a separate real-time alert stream for aurora activity, meteor showers, planetary alignments, eclipses, and ISS passes, so you know in advance when conditions and events line up for a shot worth traveling for. All three score and rank every one of your saved locations, so whichever email lands, you know exactly where to point the camera.
Weather comes from multiple professional forecasting services rather than a single source, and like any weather forecast it's sharpest 24-48 hours out — which is exactly when we send it, rather than as a one-off prediction weeks in advance. Astronomical timing is a different category entirely: sunrise/sunset, golden/blue hour windows, moon phase, and celestial event timing are calculated directly from orbital mechanics, not forecasted, so those figures are precise to the minute regardless of how far ahead you check them.
Anywhere on earth. Save up to 25 photography locations anywhere in the world and get a scored report for every one of them, every day.
ShotScout is built for any photography decided by light, weather, or sky, not one narrow niche. That includes landscape photography (golden/blue hour and cloud conditions), astrophotography and aurora/northern lights work (moon phase, dark-sky windows, real-time aurora activity), timelapse planning (extended windows of favorable conditions), outdoor portrait sessions (optimal natural light timing), wildlife photography (dawn/dusk activity windows), and coastal photography (tidal data layered in alongside weather and light). Whatever the genre, the underlying idea is the same: combine weather, astronomy, and location-specific factors into one report so you know when conditions are actually worth showing up for.
We're in beta. Join the waitlist and you'll get priority access plus a free trial period at launch.
30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. If ShotScout doesn't help you capture better photos, we'll refund your entire subscription. Cancel anytime with one click from your account dashboard.
No. ShotScout delivers reports directly to your email inbox. You manage your locations through a simple web dashboard. No apps to install, no software to configure.