About Nocturnal
Nocturnal is designed with astronomy on mind and provides two basic modes. It turns your phone or tablet into a bedside clock when in landscape mode and into a weather station when in portrait mode.
The clock computes rise and set times in that it requires your coordinates which need to be entered manually (to avoid GPS permission for your privacy).
Clocks with second hands are usually consuming much power. A power save mode darkens the screen to a minimum and disables seconds while relieving the timer virtually 60-fold. Nevertheless, the mobile device is better docked on a charger.
When rotated to portrait orientation the screen changes to a green LCD showing a weather icon, temperature, humidity and time provided online by the weather station nearest to the specified coordinates.
Essential Features
* Selectable fonts and colors
* Screen brightness adjustment
* Day of the week, date
* 12H/24H clock formats
* Seconds bar (selectable)
* Temperature [C/F] & humidity (online)
* Weather symbol icon
* Sun rise and set times
* Moon rise & set times
* Moon ephemerides
* Sun ephemerides
* Universal time
* Sidereal time
* Martian MTC time
* Position of the Galilean moons
* Power-save quick button
* In-app help
Permissions:
INTERNET required for getting weather data, no data is sent out.
PHONE merely for wake state switching.
EXTERNAL MEMORY as the app can be moved to SD.
BEFORE YOU PURCHASE:
This application is believed to be reliable and accurate, however, errors inherent to the human factor, display configuration and/or operating system implementation cannot be ruled out entirely.
Please send the author an email in case you encounter issues regarding display and/or functions.
1. Please make most efficient use of Google Play's narrow refund window.
2. Please contact the author, if you have any pre-sales questions.
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by U####:
Unlike observatory clock I get accurate constellations for meridian at my location but temperature readout is inaccurate. Its still a worth performer and innovative concept.