Sol

Sol

@solocene.bsky.social

Sunlight you can plan: the shadow of your building, tonight's sunset, your window's light. Sol for iPhone, coming soon. https://solocene.com/?via=bsky

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Every city you care about, each under its own sky, on one dial. Europe's clocks went back an hour last night; the US follows next Sunday. #timezones #travel #sky

The solar system as it stands today, turned on by weeks, then Jupiter up close. Tonight the Orionid meteor shower peaks; the darkest hours are before dawn, after the Moon sets. #solarsystem #jupiter #orionids

From the whole Earth down to one street in Tokyo: zoom in on the globe, tap a place, and see the buildings with the sun's path over them. #tokyo #maps #earth

Tonight's sunset alert: Sol sends a notification to your browser about an hour before sunset, on evenings when the forecast for your city is some colour or better. It needs no email and no account. On an iPhone, add Sol to your Home Screen first. https://solocene.com/sunset?via=bsky

solocene.comSunset tonight — will it be worth watching? · SolSee what sunset has in store. Find your sunset time, golden hour and viewing direction, with a colour forecast based on cloud and sunlight conditions.

See the sun on every window, before you sign. Sol stands your building at its real height among its neighbours, and with Sol Pro counts each window's hours of sun: today, at the solstices and the equinox. Sol for iPhone, coming soon: solocene.com/app?via=bsky #apartmenthunting #newyork #sunlight

Will tonight's sunset be worth stepping out for? Sol reads the cloud and the air and says how much colour to expect, with the week's evenings ranked. #sunset #goldenhour #weather

The live sky over Honolulu at sunset. Turn the dial and the night comes on, with the stars where they really are. This week's moon is a thin crescent, so the evening sky is dark early. #sunset #stargazing #astronomy

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Both come from Sol, an iPhone app about natural light that isn't out yet. There's no date. If you'd like one email when it ships, you can ask for it on either game's page.

Join at the end of a game and you get your own invite link. If a friend joins from it, you're first in line for the beta of Sol for iPhone. There's no date yet.

Both work the sky out in your browser. The buildings stand in their real outlines and heights, from OpenStreetMap and Overture's map data. A shared result is a row of moon phases and never gives the answer away.

Tonight's sunset, called with its reasons: cloud high enough to catch the colour, a clear gap along the sun's bearing, clean air behind it. Not a bare "78%". Sol makes that call every evening for where you stand. Looking for photographers to test it before it ships: solocene.com/beta?c=bsky-photo

Moving soon? Reply with the listing link and which rooms matter to you. We'll answer with which of them get direct sun in December, and which will cook in July, worked out from the buildings actually around it, not a compass. Free while Sol is in beta. Renters very welcome.

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