An Addason product

MERIDIAN

Terrain-aware light, for photographers

The real minute the good light arrives — and leaves.

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The problem

Your sun app is lying to you.

What every app shows

“Sunset 8:18.” That’s the flat-horizon time — the sun dropping past a perfectly level sea horizon that doesn’t exist where you shoot.

What actually happens

There’s a mesa, a ridge, a canyon wall in the way. The light is gone minutes earlier — behind the terrain in front of you. Miss it and you miss the shot.

The idea

Meridian reads the actual ridgeline.

It pulls the real elevation around any spot on earth, traces the sun’s path against that terrain, and gives you the effective sunrise and sunset — the moment the sun truly clears or drops behind the land.

flat horizon real last light · 6:50 flat “sunset” · 8:24 94 min sooner
Sun’s path across the day Real terrain from elevation data The flat horizon every other app uses
94 min
Earlier the sun drops behind the west wall at The Bavarian — the Taos Ski Valley wedding spot — than Apple Weather’s sunset. Scouted last night: the light was gone by 6:30.
The Bavarian · Taos Ski Valley
7 min
At a Santa Fe overlook the same evening — every location is different, and Meridian knows each one.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Built. Running. Real.

Not a mockup.

Live on your phone right now. Pick a place, pick a day — the answer leads, the sun-path-over-terrain chart proves it, and a tap saves the shoot.

Meridian planner — effective sunrise and sunset
The answer, first
Meridian at The Bavarian, Taos Ski Valley — last light 6:50 PM, 94 minutes before the flat-horizon sunset
The Bavarian — last light 6:50, not 8:24
Try it

Point your phone at it.

Meridian is live. Scan to open the real app — or take this pitch with you.

Scan to open the Meridian app
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Where it goes

Shipping now → next.

Live today

The planner

Effective sunrise/sunset, the sun-path-over-terrain chart, a draggable timeline, and the full phase ledger — for anywhere on earth.

Live today

Shoot scheduler

Save a shoot to its terrain-aware light window, with a “leave by” time, and send the call sheet to Gmail, Apple Mail, or your calendar.

Next

On the App Store

A native build adds offline maps, one-tap calendar, user-placed treelines & barns the elevation data can’t see, and notifications before the light turns.

Photographers on a ridgeline at golden hour

Be set up before the light moves.