Site Information

The site is approximately 1 km from the Bay of Fundy.

The observatory and this website are owned by Kathleen Walker

It is traditional for astronomy websites to utilize light text on a dark background to give a night-sky feel. Unfortunately, too many of them use an unimaginative, unergonomic combination of white text of a black background. If you spend more than 10 seconds looking at such a site, your eyes will be ringing (or whatever the optical equivalent is) when you come back to a normal site.

The colour scheme for this website was chosen to minimize this effect while still giving the traditional dark sky feel. A second objective was to ensure that the entire text content be readable through a red filter.

I do not use any page-generating software to write the HTML code. I write in straight HTML, using a plain text editor. Scripting is done mostly by server-side scripts. I use very few client side scripts. Server-side scripting is in PHP.