Lumora Solar Hours Frame Light

Lumora turns the ancient 24-hour solar clock into a live photographer's companion.
Unlike fixed 60-minute hours, temporal (solar) hours divide daylight and nighttime into 12 equal parts each — so hour length changes with the seasons and your latitude. Lumora calculates all 24 boundaries in real time from your exact location, giving you a living timeline of natural light from sunset to sunset.
FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
Every solar hour is labeled with its photographic light phase:
⦁ Golden Hour (morning & evening) — warm, directional, portrait-perfect
⦁ Blue Hour (civil twilight) — cool ambient glow, cityscapes & seascapes
⦁ Nautical & Astronomical Twilight — astrophotography, Milky Way shots
⦁ Harsh Light & Peak Intensity — midday, high-contrast architecture
⦁ Soft Daylight & Crisp Daylight — product, food & lifestyle photography
⦁ Descent Light & Warm Daylight — second golden window before sunset
Tap any hour card to see the exact start/end times, photographer's phase name, and sunrise or sunset time if it falls in that hour.
LIVE SOLAR CLOCK
⦁ 24 color-coded hour cards with real-time countdown to the next hour boundary
⦁ Swipeable 6-page layout: 3 night pages + 3 day pages, 4 hours per page
⦁ Animated sine-wave sun path graph behind each page showing the sun's arc
⦁ Current hour highlighted with a glowing red border
⦁ Day/night length bar with tap-to-expand equinox & solstice dates
⦁ Haptic vibration pulse when a new solar hour begins
SUNRISE & SUNSET
Accurate sunrise and sunset times calculated for your GPS coordinates. Displayed directly on the hour cards for Hour 1 (Sunrise) and Hour 12 (Sunset) of the day cycle, plus start/end times for every hour in between.
SMART ALARMS
Set up to 5 custom alarms anchored to any solar hour:
⦁ Pick any of the 24 hours from a dropdown
⦁ Swipe to fine-tune: −20 to +20 minutes offset from the hour start
⦁ Daily or weekly recurrence (choose specific weekdays)
⦁ 4 built-in tones + pick any audio file from your device
⦁ Fires even when the app is closed — alarm reschedules daily as solar boundaries shift
Perfect for waking up 15 minutes before Golden Hour or getting a reminder when Blue Hour begins.
WEATHER FORECAST
5-day weather forecast built right in:
⦁ High/low temperatures, rain & snow probability, wind speed, UV index
⦁ Weather condition icons for each day
⦁ Choose your data source: Open-Meteo (free, no key) or OpenWeather
⦁ Tap to open detailed forecast on weather.com
MOON PHASE
The lunar day number displays next to a crescent moon icon on the main screen — a quick at-a-glance moon phase indicator (day 1 = new moon, day 15 = full moon). Long-press to adjust ±2 days to match local moon sighting. Useful for planning moonlit landscape shoots or astrophotography sessions around new moon.
HOME SCREEN WIDGET
A compact Android widget that shows:
⦁ Current solar hour name and number
⦁ Live countdown to the next hour
⦁ Moon day (moon phase)
⦁ Animated sun path graph
⦁ Tap the date to open your device's clock & alarms
⦁ Updates every second — always current
COMPASS
Built-in compass with directional bearings and distance calculations to Mecca and Jerusalem. Works offline with your device's magnetic sensor.
WORKS EVERYWHERE, WORKS OFFLINE
⦁ Solar hours, sunrise/sunset, moon phase, compass, and alarms all work without internet
⦁ Only the weather forecast requires a connection
⦁ Set your location via GPS or tap anywhere on the interactive map
⦁ Supports device timezone or manual UTC offset with DST-aware location timezone