We sell darkness by the hour.
A fictional high-desert observatory whose website computes the actual sky. 9,096 real stars drawn for the site's coordinates at the visitor's clock, an eighteen-month calendar of moonless astronomical dark computed from the…
Why this website
9,096 stars from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue in a 53 KB binary, projected for the site's real latitude and longitude at the visitor's own clock, scrubbable through the night by pointer or keyboard. The positions come from Meeus and are verified against an independent implementation to 0.01°.
An eighteen-month calendar of moonless astronomical dark — sun below −18° and moon below the horizon at once — sampled every five minutes across 547 nights. Deep-sky sessions are genuinely unbookable about twenty nights a month, and each closed night says why.
Day, night and a hue-locked red night mode that mirrors how observatories preserve dark adaptation, with its own duotone photography so no white appears anywhere. Auto follows the observatory's clock rather than the visitor's.
Give it a name and teach it about your business. Ask Yantrabot how it can help your visitors.
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