PlanIt Earth: VR Photo Planner

For landscape, travel, nature, cityscape, 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 whole new level.

Ansel Adams called it previsualization — imagining the final print before the shot is ever taken. Seeing a scene before you travel to it greatly increases the chance 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 exactly where they will be. Scrub time and watch light and shadows move through your composition.

There isn't always a signal out in the field. Preload offline elevation, maps and markers for your area and keep scouting, previewing and planning entirely 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 instead of reading numbers Aerial and drone view, from top-down to the horizon Immersive full-screen mode, 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 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 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 Plans, markers and tracks

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