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PERSONAL OBSERVATORY / CHATGPT EDITION

HelioClock v38

LIVE SKY——
OBSERVATION CONSOLE

Travel through time & space

Choose a date above, scrub UTC time here, or animate the sky. Drag or scroll views to explore.

00:0023:5912:00 UTC
YOUR OBSERVATORY

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SOLAR EPHEMERIS / —
A day on Earth.
49.19° N · 98.10° W
SUNRISE UTC—
SOLAR NOON UTC—
SUNSET UTC—
00:00 UTCDAYLIGHT —24:00 UTC
—SOLAR ALTITUDE
SUN AZIMUTH—
EQUATION OF TIME—
EARTH–SUN DISTANCE—
MOON ILLUMINATION—
LUNAR AGE—
01 / SOLAR EPHEMERIS

The daylight year

Sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk throughout the year · local mean solar time

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Daylight Civil twilight Nautical Astronomical Night
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Selected Sun: —
02 / GLOBAL LIGHT

Earth, illuminated

Solar terminator and twilight bands · wheel to zoom · drag to pan

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Twilight overlays 2K image · offline
Satellite Earth texture · solar twilight computed live
Day Civil Nautical Astronomical Night Sun zenith ○ Sun nadir ◇
03 / YOUR HORIZON

Sky compass

Local horizon · zoom toward the pointer · drag to pan when magnified

AZ / ALT
Live illumination from solar altitude
Bright stars Milky Way overlay readying Precession on · mean equinox of date
Local sidereal time: —23h 56m 4.091s per step
Milky Way mask diagnosticsDiagnostic statistics loading
Move your pointer over the sky to read RA, Dec, azimuth and altitude
Sun and Moon position details loading…
Sun MoonBright stars, planets and Sun/Moon positions
04 / CELESTIAL DISCS

Sun & Moon

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LUNAR CYCLE
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Bright limb from zenith: —Loading lunar photography…
NEW MOON
FULL CYCLE
05 / SOLAR SYSTEM

Solar system orrery

Approximate heliocentric positions · switch inner / outer planets

NOT TO SCALE
Radial scale · astronomical units
● Mercury● Venus● Earth● Mars
06 / OBSERVATION NOTES

Under the sky

Context for the selected instant

Solar declination—
Sun position—
Moon altitude—
Moon azimuth—
Daylight change tomorrow—
Observer location—
Solar calculations use NOAA-style approximate equations. Lunar positions use Astronomy Engine; planetary positions use simplified models, not precision ephemerides. Times are shown in UTC to avoid ambiguous local clock offsets; no network location or astronomy service is required.
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