Stargazer - Stargazing briefing for tonight

Stargazer turns your Garmin watch into a glanceable stargazing companion. Open the app from your wrist and see exactly what's worth looking up for tonight - no phone, no setup, no scrolling through a six-page weather report. If you enjoy Stargazer, you can buy me a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/tomsullivan1989 The briefing screen shows: - Today's sunset, astronomical-darkness start, and tomorrow's sunrise in your local solar time - The current moon phase as a vector glyph plus illumination percentage and tonight's moonrise/moonset - Which of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are above the horizon at civil dusk and bright enough to see naked-eye - The next visible ISS pass in the upcoming 24 hours - start time, rough direction, and a brightness word so you know whether to bother going outside - An aurora visibility hint when NOAA's Kp forecast crosses your local geographic-latitude threshold - A "shower active" headline when a major annual meteor shower (Perseids, Geminids, Quadrantids, etc.) is at peak - A cloud-cover note on the dark-sky headline (clear / some cloud / cloudy) so you know whether tonight is actually worth going out for - A "best night this week" nudge pointing you to the darkest, least-moonlit, clearest night ahead when tonight isn't the one Press start/select to drill into a week-ahead event list: dark-sky windows, upcoming ISS passes, lunar eclipses inside the next 7 days, shower peak nights, and aurora forecasts. Press the menu button for the Sky Pointer: a live compass arrow that shows which way to turn - and how high to look - to find the Moon, a visible planet, or the ISS overhead. Cycle targets with up/down. Background notifications (optional, per-class toggleable) wake your watch when an ISS pass starts within 10-20 minutes, when an aurora event looks plausible at your latitude, or when a major meteor shower hits its peak night - so you don't have to remember to check. Data sources: - ISS orbit elements from Celestrak (live, refreshed daily) - Aurora Kp forecast from NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center - Cloud-cover forecast from Open-Meteo (for the observing-conditions hint and the best-night ranking)er - Sun, moon, and planet positions computed locally from Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms (no network required) Designed for stargazers, photographers, and anyone who wants a glanceable "is tonight worth setting an alarm for?" answer on their wrist.

- Sky Pointer: press menu for a live compass arrow guiding you to the Moon, a planet, or the ISS - which way to turn and how high to look. - Cloud-cover forecast: the dark-sky headline now tells you if it'll actually be clear, partly cloudy, or overcast (via Open-Meteo). - Best night this week: a nudge toward the darkest, least-moonlit, clearest night ahead when tonight isn't the one. - Cleaner 7-day event list: better spacing, no more clipped rows. - Stability and layout fixes across watch sizes. Note: this version adds the Sensor permission (compass) and now sends your approximate location (rounded to ~11 km) to Open-Meteo for the cloud forecast - see the updated privacy policy.