If you love to shoot landscape and nature ( hunting sunset and sunrise- the gold light on the top of mountain and beach), we don't stuck only on lucky factor. The good preparation, accuracy, and conscientious become determinant factor. 

To get photo with the best natural light, the most ideal is if we can make visualization of the light characteristic  in hunting location before we go. Using some smartphone apps Bellow, we can know the sun position early in the current location that we choose ( date & time). So we can minimize the lucky factor and get more perfect accuracy. It will wasting your time if after you climbing mountain to catch the sunset but evidently the sun is hiding on the other higher mountain!

So this is 4 smartphone apps for android and ios that might be helpful for you who loves Landscape : 

TPE is the one of the most popular for photography lovers. We can know how the sunlight or even moonlight Will fall in specific position (example : borobudur temple) on the specific time and date.  

You just need to input the location, date, time and the App will show you where is the sun position,  height  and where is the light direction . This app is not free, but for this cool apps the price is reliable. 

So just download The Photographer Ephemeris for Android and IOS.

Pashadelic is almost similar with TPE, but there is feature to see the sun position and light direction on location and the time that we pick, even in more simple version and it's not more complete that TPE. The advantages of Pashadelic is we don't have to pay to use this app. But we have to join Pashadelic member, because they rely the community to sharing each other about spot location to get landscape spot reference which is cool in their area.

Sun Seeker is the most favorite apps because it's easy to use and pretty sophisticated, its not only for landscape photographer but also for they who want to know the sun position of current location with high accuracy. The most interesting of sun seeker is the augmented reality 3D feature, just run the app in the spot where you stand and  main smartphone camera will show you where is the sun and the path that will be passed the sun all day, complete with illustration lines. 

If TPE is good to predict the sun position in large landscape scope, instead Sun seeker is the best to determine the position with more detail. 

If you love to shoot star constellation, Galaxy (astrophotography) using standard lens or telescope lens, the SkySafari is the best to help you finding the object that you search for. 

This App give us the access on 199 thousands of star position and 220 galaxy also all planets, comet and moon in tour solar system through data from NASA. When using smartphone GPS, this app will show you where is the position of stars,  galaxy ,and the other sky objects, also to identify them with easy, quick, complete with the support data.  

If you just want to shoot star trail and the night sky, this app is very good for you. Don't forget to find the clear sky and still free from pollution to get maximum result.