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The site is located in the Annapolis Valley. |
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OwnerThe observatory and this website are owned by Kathleen Walker |
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NameThe name of the observatory is the Helena Observatory. Who is Helena? Her full name is Helena Handbasket. The name has been used by at least one real-life drag performer, as a character in an animé, and probably best-known as a character on the Friends TV show. "Helena Handbasket" is a commentary on the social and political state of the world: "going to hell in a handbasket". |
WebsiteIt 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. |
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Last modified: 06-Jul-2023