Sky & astrology almanacs

Three almanacs — your calendars, each a named, coloured layer of commitments — hold the sky's own events. "celestial" is shown from the start. "astrology · western" and "astrology · vedic" start eclipsed — hidden, not deleted. All three were recorded once and ship ready-made. Nothing is calculated while the app runs.

#"celestial"

It holds these, with titles exactly as shown:

• "new moon" and "full moon" — only these two phases;
• "solar eclipse", "lunar eclipse" and "penumbral lunar eclipse";
• "march equinox", "june solstice", "september equinox" and "december solstice" — named by month, so they read right in both hemispheres;
• the yearly meteor-shower peaks: "quadrantids peak" (3 jan), "lyrids peak" (22 apr), "eta aquariids peak" (6 may), "perseids peak" (12 aug), "orionids peak" (21 oct), "leonids peak" (17 nov) and "geminids peak" (13 dec).

Each moon, eclipse, equinox and solstice is kept as its exact moment. It shows on the day it falls where your phone is. The showers are yearly repeats on fixed dates.

Its description says the moments were worked out once by the calendar's astronomy and checked against the US Naval Observatory and NASA. It ends "recorded 2026–2045".

Moon-phase names such as "waxing crescent" are not entries here. Those, the moon drawn in the views, and the phase named under the week view come from the app's own astronomy, worked out from the date.

#"astrology · western" and "astrology · vedic"

Western uses the tropical zodiac. Vedic uses the sidereal zodiac, by the Lahiri ayanamsa. They are two readings of the same sky, about three weeks apart, so they are two separate almanacs rather than one setting. Both start eclipsed. Turn on the one you follow — or both — with a tap on its chip, or "visible" on its page.

They hold the sun and the planets from mercury to pluto entering each sign — "the sun enters capricorn", "mercury enters sagittarius" — and each planet turning: "goes retrograde" and "goes direct". There are no moon, rahu or ketu entries. Each sign change and turn is kept as its exact moment, and shows on the day it falls where your phone is. Each description is a source note, then "recorded 2026–2045".

#What all three share

• Twenty years, from 2026 to 2045.
• Their own outer belt. In the year view they are drawn as stars in an outer belt, not in the band the holidays use.
• They never ring. A sky entry sends no reminder.
• Recorded, not worked out. Nothing is calculated while the app runs.
• Read in, not stored. While locked, their entries are read from the app each time they are needed. They are never written into the phone's files, backed up or sent to Drive — every phone already has them. An eclipsed one is read only when its list or count is asked for.
• Unlocked, it becomes your own. Unlocking copies its entries into its own file. From then on it is an ordinary almanac, edited and saved like any other.
• Locked on arrival and free. The lock — a locked almanac refuses every change until you unlock it — is on from the start. They never count toward your three free almanacs.
• Listed like the rest. They sit in the binder — the page where all your almanacs live — and have chips in the legend, the row of almanac chips you tap to show or hide them.

See also. Holiday almanacs · The lock · The year & years views · Almanacs & the legend