Name: Observatory: Live Sky, Sun, Moon & Stars
Author: Arka

⭐ Featured on the5krunner: https://the5krunner.com/2026/11/10/observatory-garmin-watch-face/

Time, told by the sky.

An analog face where the sun crosses the dial on your real day: it rises at the 9 at your sunrise, is highest at the 12 and sets at the 3. The hands cast its shadows, the sky's colour follows twilight, and after dark the dial shows the stars overhead while the moon keeps the night's hours below.

Everything is worked out on your watch, for your place and your date.

THE DAY
• The sun follows your real sunrise and sunset.
• The dial's colour follows the sun's height, through golden hour and twilight.
• The hands cast shadows away from the sun: long in the morning and evening, short at noon, gone at sunset.

THE NIGHT
• The stars overhead, from 290 in the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, each in its real colour.
• Up to three of 28 constellations each hour, drawn in fine lines and named.
• The moon crosses the lower half from sunset to sunrise, in tonight's phase.
• It works in the southern hemisphere too, Southern Cross included.

YOURS TO ARRANGE
• Three readings, each one of 16: heart rate, Body Battery, steps, your next calendar event, the next sunrise or sunset, the weather and more. Hold one to open Garmin's own screen for it.
• Numerals at the quarters, all twelve or none; a small reading under the date; the seconds hand; the constellations' names.
• A bed mark: in the three hours before bedtime in your Garmin Connect sleep schedule, a small bed on the dial's edge shows where the hour hand will be at bedtime.
• All settings are in the face's menu on the watch. Phone settings are planned.

AT REST
With your wrist down, the dial falls back to fine grey lines that light about 3% of the screen, shifted each minute to protect the AMOLED display. Battery use is about the same as Garmin's own analog face with always-on.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Watches: vívoactive 5 and 6; Venu 3S and Venu 4 (41 mm); Forerunner 170, 170 Music and 570 (42 mm); epix Pro (Gen 2) (42 mm); Approach S70 (42 mm); Descent Mk3 (43 mm); MARQ (Gen 2), MARQ Commander (Gen 2) Carbon Edition and MARQ Aviator (Gen 2).
• Watch not listed? Email me which one: requests decide what comes next.
• Your location comes from the watch (Garmin's weather or your last GPS activity), and the face makes no network calls. With no location yet, it assumes sunrise at 6:30 and sunset at 18:30.
• A one-time purchase. Garmin refunds it within 48 hours.

Questions: arka.watchfaces@gmail.com