Info
Controls
Earth & Venus Visibility
Inspect where the Sun and Venus sit over Earth plus a quick heliocentric sketch.
Plot one custom lat/lon point with highlight rings.
Inspect subsolar and sub-Venus points with day-side visibility overlays.
Scrub date/time or jump by sidereal days to animate footprints.
Toggle Sun/Venus overlays and view numeric subpoint readouts.
Enable sun-synchronous camera to track the subsolar point.
Use terminator view to stay centered on the dawn/dusk line.
Show twilight bands with a configurable sun-below-horizon angle.
Time & Animation
Date/Time (UTC)
Now
-1 sidereal day
+1 sidereal day
-1 day
+1 day
-1 hr
+1 hr
-10 min
+10 min
Sun & Venus
Sun visibility
Venus visibility (green)
Camera
Geosync
Sun-sync
Dawn
Dusk
Twilight Band
Twilight limit (deg below horizon):
6 deg
Point
Selected point (lat, lon)
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Plot point
Clear
Click the globe to set or update the point. Time zone auto-detected from the coordinates.
Sun & Venus Data