Shadows

Shadows is a cool app that lets you create your very own sundials and astrolabes! These tools help you tell time using the Sun's shadow and even track stars. While sundials are pretty popular, astrolabes take it up a notch by helping with location finding too. Super handy, right?

Create Your Own Sundials

With Shadows, you can pick from lots of templates to design different types of sundials, like horizontal, polar, or equatorial ones. You can also choose locations from various countries around the globe. The app even gives you the coordinates and time zone info for each spot!

Customizing Your Design

Once you've got your location sorted out, it’s time to customize how your sundial looks! You can switch between a 24-hour format or add extra lines for every 30, 15, or even 5 minutes. Want a unique shape? No problem! Choose from rectangular, elliptical, or hexagonal designs. You can even add an analemma curve at each hour line!

Understanding Mean Time

If you're curious about how to find the mean time for a specific date, Shadows has got you covered. It shows you the equation of time in a graph so that you can easily figure out how many minutes to add to get the correct solar time.

Print & Export Your Work

When you're all done designing your sundial or astrolabe and have set everything up just right, printing is super easy! You can print directly from the app with all your chosen markings included. Plus, if you want to share it digitally, you can export your design as an AutoCAD-compatible DXF file.

User-Friendly for Everyone!

This tool is great for both beginners and those who know their way around sundials and astrolabes. Even if you're new to this stuff, you'll find that designing your own is straightforward as long as you're willing to do a little research first.

If you're ready to dive into creating some amazing designs with Shadows, check it out now!