Sun Clock is a 24-hour clock that displays the position of the sun, and sunrise, solar noon, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for your current location. It also shows the current position and phase of the moon, and its rising and setting times.
Interesting! That's similar to a clock that my brother and I made years ago (http://naturalclock.net). Ours adds the altitude of the sun throughout the day and lets you select the location and fast forward and rewind time to see how the sun's path changes throughout the year. I came up with the basic concept and my brother drastically improved the graphics and added the map and retrieval of time zones. Unfortunately no documentation and no HTTPS. I don't know how accurate it is. As I recall we based the equations for the sun on a solar cell-related website.
It's cool that the Sun Clock has the moon phases and that the sun (according to another comment) goes the correct way in the Southern Hemisphere. I kind of wanted to add the moon but hadn't thought about the position of the sun.
Not a dumb question — it's one of the reasons I built this. It's because you are in the Southern Hemisphere.
In the Southern Hemisphere the Sun is generally in the northern half of the sky at midday (although not always if north of the Tropic of Capricorn), and the sun appears to move anticlockwise across the sky. If you are facing North sunrise (East) is to your right and sunset (West) is to your left, and the hour hand of the clock pretty much tracks the position of the sun.
There's a gradient that you see briefly before the location loads, or for longer if you don't give location permission. I think it looks nicer than the end result, but you do need the edges between the periods to be clear.
The clock needs a location to calculate sunrise, sunset, and twilight times. You can set one manually in settings if you don't want to permit the browser to use the geolocation API.
Yes. If you are north of ~52.3° you won't experience 'true' night at the moment, just astronomical twilight. Of course the definitions are somewhat arbitrary.
