Orrery Watch Face

This watch face displays real time the sun, the moon and the earth in their relative positions with sun illumination. It also shows the watch current position on the earth when visible. It is a 24 hour analog face. Some key features: - Moon Face: the moon face is directly available based on the position of the moon with respect to the sun and the earth in the display. Imagine yourself looking at the moon from the center of the earth. The full moon occurs when the moon is "behind" the earth from the sun, while the new moon is when the moon is "between" the sun and the earth - Equinox and Solstice: the month dial is set such that it aligns with the way the earth and the sun are configured. The poles angle to the sun directly indicates the month (the month indicator always points at the pole) - Sun maximum elevation (solar noon): the sun is oriented with respect to the hour dial such that the highest sun elevation (solar noon) will occur when the hour hand directly points towards the sun tallest ray. You may see one hour or more in each direction difference between solar noon and local time noon depending of your location in the time zone or the use of daylight savings. Note that in sun dial mode the sun elevation is showed by a small yellow line as it generally does not line up to when the location is straight across the sun. - Sunset and sun rise: When the dial is in sun mode only, sunset and sun rise coincide exactly with when the hour hand is horizontal (left and right). When in standard mode sunset and sunrise are not directly available but are occurring when the location dot passes horizontal. - Current position: if you run an activity with GPS, the latest GPS position will then be used and marked on the earth. If no GPS position is available, a rough guess will be made based on the current timezone and the location will show as purple. - Moon nodes: As of version 1.6, it can be enabled to get a feel for when eclipses may occur. Notes about dial sun mode: - When the northern hemisphere is displayed, the hour hand goes counter clockwise. It will actually follow the earth rotation such that the hour hand always overlaps the current position, which can be seen though the hand itself. This is because the earth rotates counter clockwise when north is viewed up. If the southern hemisphere is displayed, the hour hand will move clockwise. - The minute hands and second hands will move clockwise for convenience. Use the red minute dial for reference. Notes about the second hand: - the second hand only shows during "high power" mode, which means that the user has made the gesture to look at the watch or the screen/buttons were activated manually. Available settings: - Dial Type: standard or Sun mode is available. The standard mode has a uniform hour dial and the hour hand does not provide any additional information besides sun noon - Hemisphere: you can choose which hemisphere is displayed (north or south). You can also let the face select which hemisphere is displayed based on the watch position latitude by choosing automatic. - Data Field: an additional data field can be displayed. Current fields supported are digital time, battery percentage or battery remaining in days. By default no fields are displayed. Settings are available either via the Connect IQ app or directly on the watch when selected. When accessing settings on the watch, make sure to hold the menu button a few seconds when prompted to access the settings details. For AMOLED watches, the display is checkered when always on is enabled and the watch is asleep. This is normal and is to prevent the display from being damaged. Feel free to donate to support more features and more free apps/widgets/faces using https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=T5YMA6TVQXWQ4&no_recurring=0&item_name=Donate+to+support+the+development+of+more+free+Garmin+watches+apps,+widget+or+faces. Join my patreon for more content at https://patreon.com/Garmin20100

V1.8: Added support for Fenix 8 pro and Venu 4 V1.7: Added support for Vivoactive 6 and FR970 V1.6: Added option to display moon nodes. V1.5: Added support for dial orientation in the settings (12pm/sun up or down) V1.4: Support for Fenix 8 and Enduro 3 V1.3: Support for Epix2, EpixPro, fr265, fr965, Venu2 and Venu3 series. Always On is supported when enabled in System/Display/General Use/Always On V1.2: Improved GPS location corruption when a fix is started but never completed (causing the location to be lat/long = 0/0) V1.1: Support for Fenix 7 Pro series