Orrery
· v1.1.1
About
COMPATIBILITY - Garmin watches with a round AMOLED display: fenix 9 / 9 Pro (43, 47, 51 mm), fenix 8 / 8 Pro (43, 47, 51 mm), fenix E, epix (Gen 2) and epix Pro (Gen 2), Forerunner 265 / 265S / 965 / 970 / 570 / 170, Venu 3 / 3S / 4, vivoactive 6, MARQ (Gen 2), Approach S70, Descent Mk3, D2 Mach 1 / Mach 2, tactix 7 AMOLED / tactix 8, quatix 7 / 8. No version for MIP displays (fenix 7, Forerunner 955 / 255...): the watch face needs the colour and transparency of AMOLED.
PRICE - Free 2-hour trial, then a one-time purchase of $4.99 (+ VAT) via KiezelPay: the watch shows a code, you enter it at kzl.io/code. The licence is tied to your watch and is never asked again.
THE SOLAR SYSTEM IN REAL TIME: the Sun at the centre and the eight planets at today's positions, computed with Kepler's laws from their orbital elements - not a picture, a real ephemeris. Saturn with its ring, Jupiter with its bands, Earth circled by a breathing golden ring: "you are here".
AND IT TURNS: on every wrist raise, the past year plays back in twelve seconds - Mercury completes its four orbits, Venus one and a half, Earth one - then everything slows down and settles exactly on today. An orrery you wind up, that ends up telling the truth.
AROUND IT, A RING OF 15 LIVE INDICATORS: battery, heart rate, SpO2, respiration, stress, Body Battery, temperature, steps, floors, active / resting / total calories, altitude, and local weather with its temperature.
EARTH, ON A LONG PRESS: hold the screen for two seconds to switch to the Earth seen from space - the live day/night line, city lights at night, your position marked with a golden dot, the sun and moon arcs, animated weather (rain, snow, fog, thunderstorm). Another long press brings the solar system back.
ALWAYS-ON: the solar system in thin grey lines, and the time.
Everything is computed on the watch from its sensors and Garmin weather: no account, no personal data sent (only the KiezelPay licence check goes through your phone). NASA textures (Blue Marble, city lights). Aldrich font (OFL licence).
Designed by Michael Esteves.
What's new
Prettier planets. Each one is now modelled as a sphere rather than a flat dot: lit from the sun's real direction, with a shaded crescent on the far side that gives it volume, a rim of light along its edge, and the bands of Jupiter and Saturn. Saturn's rings are drawn as a proper band with the Cassini division, instead of two hairlines.
The indicators around the rim keep their own colours in always-on — battery, heart rate, body battery, temperature — instead of a uniform grey, so you can read the ring at a glance.