Icosmo Clock – Sky View

The Icosmo Sky Clock has no clock face. The whole sky is the clock: the Sun moves around the 24 hours as the hour hand, the zodiac turns with it, and the Moon and the planets stand at the places where they really are right now. Every hour shows its colour and its key of the Icosmo Matrix, and the sky above you brings its own weather into the picture: clouds, rain, snow, fog and thunderstorms.

The clock reads the time and the location of your device. Allow your browser to use your location, and the sunrise, the sunset, the Ascendant and the weather are calculated for the place where you are.

Fullscreen: Click the small arrow ⤢ in the top right corner to see the sky on the whole screen. Click it again to return to this page.

The Sun is the Hour Hand:
The Sun stands exactly at the current time on the circle of the hour dots and moves on with every minute. It shines in the colour of the hour of the Icosmo Matrix and blends slowly into the colour of the next hour. Around sunrise it glows red, around sunset red-violet.
While the Sun is above your real horizon, it shines with its full corona and moving rays. At night it stays visible as a calmer Sun with softer rays, so the hour is always easy to find.

Hours, Colours and Keys:
Each of the 24 hours stands in a soft glow of its Matrix colour, so the colour zones of the day can be seen around the whole sky. Above the horizon the glows grow stronger with the light of the day, so they stay visible on the blue sky, and soften again at night. Below each hour, in the inner ring, stands the key of the hour in its colour: from F# at 5 and 6 o’clock in the morning through C at noon to F at 17 and 18 o’clock, and back again through the night. The dot of the current hour is larger.

Sunrise and Sunset:
Two short dashed lines just outside the hour numbers mark the real sunrise ↑ and sunset ↓ of the day at your location, with their times. Their dots take the colour of the hour in which the Sun rises or sets. Through the year the two lines wander: in summer they move towards the night, in winter towards noon.

Sunrise

Sunset

Day

Night

The Zodiac:
Inside the circle of the hour dots lie the twelve houses of the zodiac. Each shows the star figure of its constellation and the symbol of its sign in the colour of its element. The whole zodiac turns once a day together with the Sun, so the Sun always stands in its real sign; the sign of the Sun is highlighted.

The Ecliptic:
The dotted circle through the star figures is the ecliptic, the path of the Sun, the Moon and the planets through the signs. Everything that moves through the zodiac moves on this line, so you can see at a glance in which sign each planet stands.

Ascendant and Midheaven:
The marks AC and MC on the outer circle of the zodiac show the Ascendant, the degree of the zodiac rising at your horizon, and the Midheaven, the degree at the highest point of the sky, for your location and the current time.

The Planets:
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto stand at their real positions on the ecliptic, each in its colour of the Icosmo Matrix. Their positions are calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, the same astronomical calculation as in the astro charts of the Icosmo plugins, and they are updated every minute. When planets stand close together, one of them moves just inside or outside the ecliptic, so that all symbols stay readable.

Retrograde:
A small ℞ beside a planet shows that it is retrograde: seen from the Earth, it is moving backwards through the zodiac.

The Moon:
The Moon moves on the ecliptic through the signs and shows its real phase. In the clock its lit side always faces the Sun, as it does in the sky, so you can watch how the light turns while the Moon travels around the zodiac.

The Moon Phase:
In the top right corner the Moon is shown upright, the way you see it in the sky, together with the name of its phase and how much of it is lit. In the northern hemisphere a waxing Moon is lit on the right and a waning Moon on the left; in the southern hemisphere it is the other way round.

Date and Time (top left): the date and the time of your device.

Moon Phase (top right): the upright Moon with its phase, beside the fullscreen button.

Chakras and Sign (bottom left): the seven chakras, with the chakras of the current hour lit, and below them the sign of the Sun.
The chakras follow the traffic light of the Icosmo Matrix: on the exact colour of a chakra, only this chakra is active — Root on Red, Sacral on Orange, Solar Plexus on Yellow, Heart on Green, Throat on Green-Blue, Third Eye on Blue and Crown on Red-Violet. In the hours between two chakra colours, such as Red-Orange or Yellow-Green, both neighbouring chakras are active. So there is never an hour without a chakra.

Weather (bottom right): the current weather at your location with the temperature, the conditions, the felt temperature, the wind with its direction and the humidity. The units are chosen by your location: °F and mph in the USA, °C and km/h everywhere else.

Partly cloudy

Overcast

Rain

Snow

Fog

Thunderstorm

On Every Screen:
The Sky Clock fits itself to every screen. On a narrow screen held upright, such as a phone, the clock fills the width and the sky and the sea fill the space above and below it. The times of sunrise and sunset then appear below the clock time in the top left corner.