Hall's Harbour Observatory,   Hall's Harbour, NS

Site Information

30-May-2023 01:45 ADT 30-May-2023 04:45 UTC

Observatory site

Location: Hall's Harbour, NS
Latitude: 45°12'
Longitude: -64°37'
Altitude: 69m ASL
Magnetic Var.: 18° W
Time Zone: ADT, currently UTC
Light pollution: Bortle class 3 (blue)
Skyline elevation:
North: 15°
East: 20°
South: 15°
West: 15°

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

Weather Station

Observatory

Site Time

Server and site time

Webcams

Webcams

Owner

The observatory and this website are owned by Kathleen Walker

Website

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.