L1 Earth

Every few minutes, this watch face calculates the tilt and rotation of Earth as it might look from the L1 Lagrange point (directly between Earth and Sun), and also shows changing terrain throughout the year. Optionally flips to the view from L2 (near the James Webb Space Telescope) at night. A mini view of the Earth-Moon system from the north ecliptic pole shows the moon and its counterclockwise orbit with sunlight coming from the 6:00 position - from Earth's perspective, the moon is new at the 6:00 position, waxing half at 3:00, full at 12:00, and waning half at 9:00. Each dot in the orbit represents one day, and apogee and perigee are in a different color. Some features require a GPS location, so be sure to go outside and start an activity after installation. To change the watch face settings, please see https://apps.garmin.com/settingsHelp. For best results, set to "always on" mode and adjust brightness so all colors are visible. I created L1 because I enjoy astronomy and wanted a cool watch face - I hope you like it too. If you enjoy the simulated views of the world from this app, please consider paying it forward by doing something good for others in the real world. If you do, I'd love to hear about it! On the other hand, if the app isn't working well, please use the Contact Developer link before posting a negative review. Credits to NASA (satellite imagery), Vincenzo Vuono (Gravity font), Erik Flowers (weather icons), and Icons8 (selected icons): https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/754/what-is-a-lagrange-point/ https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=BlueMarbleNG https://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/144898/earth-at-night-black-marble-2016-color-maps https://www.dafont.com/gravity.font https://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/ https://icons8.com/icon/fYouThPSg0R6/heart-rate https://icons8.com/icon/YoSE6gEmLY2P/battery

2024.36.3 Fixed daytime earth water color and made seconds indicator yellow and bolder 2024.36.2 Fixed possible position icon blink 2024.36.1 Reatined large display in low power mode, added bilinear filtering, fixed user position icon for longitude past 90E 2024.28.1 Added support for Approach S70 and Descent Mk3 2023.40.1 Added support for Venu 3, 3S 2023.23.1 Minor bug fixes, added support for epix Pro 2023.14.1 Refined layout and improved earth render quality 2023.9.1 Added support for Forerunner 265 and 965 2023.2.1 Added pixel smoothing to earth render, minor fixes 2023.1.5, 2023.1.6 Minor robustness improvements 2023.1.4 Fixed current weather data field when data is unavailable, improved robustness on startup 2023.1.3 Fixed weather forecast data field 2023.1.2 Flattened data field menu for improved compatibility with iPhone Connect IQ app