The Orrery skin is mostly an exercise in Lua scripting. The skin meters are driven from the Lua script rather than by data from Rainmeter measures. There are two variants of the skin: Simple.ini and Orrery.ini. The Simple.ini variant demonstrates how to use Planets.lua. The Orrery.ini variant started life as a prettier version of Simple.ini, but I got a bit carried away.
I don't intend to support the skin and don't want to lead users to believe otherwise. Rather, I just wanted to publish some code that others might find useful. There is a readme included with the skin that describes how to configure the skin and control it at runtime.
Apologies in advance if I don't find the time to reply to comments and questions, but I'll try.
Many thanks to the Rainmeter developers. I've really enjoyed working with your software. Thanks to jsmorely for all the examples and user support. And thanks to the many contributors to the forum: Smurfier, Mordasius, Stone, SilverAzide, balala, and eclectic-tech to name a few.
Update 2023-11-06
The original Orrery skin pictured above has been split into three separate skins: Orrey, SkyView, and StarMap.
The new skins support scaling.
Update 2024-01-31
The skins have been updated:
- Orrery, SkyView, and StarMap can now be incrementally scaled by hovering over the skin frame and scrolling the mouse wheel. Hover over the top-left corner of the frame for easiest scaling.
- The stars files used by SkyView and StarMap have been updated with the latest IAU names. New example stars files have been created. Stars files can now be selected via the custom context menu.
Please see readme.txt for configuration and operation details.