Celestial Watchface
· vv1.0.2
About
Stand on any planet in the solar system and read the time from its sky.
Celestial Watchface is an analog watch face that re-creates the real sky as seen
from a chosen world. Pick your planet in the settings and the entire face adapts:
• ANALOG TIME — minute and hour hands in the selected planet's signature color,
showing your normal wrist time at a glance.
• DAY / NIGHT RING — a 24-hour dial around the edge showing that planet's real
sunrise-to-sunset arc at a famous landmark, with a marker at the current local
solar time. Watch Jupiter's ring sweep every ~10 hours, or Mercury's barely
crawl across its 176-Earth-day "day."
• REAL STARS — the ~40 brightest stars, projected through each planet's actual
pole orientation. The Martian sky doesn't spin around Polaris — its pole star
is roughly Deneb — and Celestial Watchface gets this right. Bright stars are
labeled (Sirius, Canopus, Vega, Antares…).
• THE OTHER PLANETS — see Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and the rest drift across the
sky in their true colors, computed with real Keplerian orbital mechanics.
• THE SUN, TO SCALE — drawn at its real position and apparent size. From Mercury
it looms huge; from Pluto it's a distant pinprick.
• LANDMARK SITES — observe from the Curiosity rover at Gale Crater on Mars,
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Saturn's north polar hexagon, Pluto's Tombaugh
Regio ("the heart"), and more. On Earth, your nearest city is shown using
your watch's GPS.
• MOONS OF MARS — when observing from Mars, Phobos and Deimos appear in the sky
at their computed positions.
All astronomy is computed on the watch — no phone connection needed once set.
Choose your world: Mercury · Venus · Earth · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus ·
Neptune · Pluto.
What's new
The daytime sun is drawn along its full diurnal arc so it always matches the sunrise/sunset ring.