Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

#1

Post by beeswaxpat » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 1:25 PM UTC

Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
lumara-space.app

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

#2

Post by HelloUsername » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 1:58 PM UTC

The Appstore button redirects to https://beeswaxpat.github.io/lumara-legal/

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

#3

Post by beeswaxpat » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

HelloUsername wrote: post #2

The Appstore button redirects to https://beeswaxpat.github.io/lumara-legal/

Thank you! It is live on Android, in review on App store and hopefully live shortly. Will remove that hyperlink from the Appstore image until it's live

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

#4

Post by cybrox » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

Awesome! Now I wish screensavers were a thing again.

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

#5

Post by beeswaxpat » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 2:36 PM UTC

cybrox wrote: post #4

Awesome! Now I wish screensavers were a thing again.

Me too! I kind of forgot about them for a minute. You see more screensavers on TV now than on the computer!

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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Post by timdorr » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

"Live" from the sun, minus the ~500 lightseconds it takes to get here :)

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

#7

Post by miki_oomiri » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 2:58 PM UTC

Looking at the sun daily timelapse. It looks like the rotation of the sun is more that 1/365th of the sun diameter. What am i missing?

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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Post by beeswaxpat » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

timdorr wrote: post #6

"Live" from the sun, minus the ~500 lightseconds it takes to get here :)

Also the videos are made with frames from every 12 seconds or so over 24 hours, I am definitely using "live" very liberally :D

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

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Post by beeswaxpat » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

miki_oomiri wrote: post #7

Looking at the sun daily timelapse. It looks like the rotation of the sun is more that 1/365th of the sun diameter. What am i missing?

Good eye! That's the Sun's own rotation — ~27 days (Carrington rotation period) at the equator, it's plasma, so slower at the poles. 24hrs ≈ 13° of longitude ≈ ~7% of the disk. 1/365 would be Earth's orbit, which is a different motion :)

Re: Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

#10

Post by earth2mars » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 3:10 PM UTC

I can see Claude