Such a great little website. you can see it was more orange than Hackernews header just 2 days back.
I wonder how the camera was calibrated in terms of white balance (if at all).
I have this idea to implement in my house: a sensor that would measure temperature of the light outside and set the lights inside to the same temperature. Getting this measurement right seems to be non-trivial. Though maybe it wouldn't have to be exact in terms of physical units, a pair of sensors calibrated together (one for outside, one for inside) might achieve the desired result too.
I find it fascinating how Toronto is no where near as bad as New York. The fight to protect the environment has to be a global one
Has the developer of this posted any blog or documentation of how it works? What hardware/software is used for it?
Nice, however "a day ago" isn't particularly helpful. For this local EDT time would be fine, but I'd like to know it it's 8am or 11am
Zooming out is kinda neat...
But I would like to be able to see the background image for some of the shots bythemselves - as there are some cool pics of that view.
It would be interesting if he specified how he came up with RGB values for sky color, like what is his neutral grey point etc.
Scroll down to the end of the page to 2 days ago! It's insane!
This is such a cool idea. Some people are so cleaver.
#000 I didn't think it'd be that dark even at local midnight
For SF, there's https://isitfoggy.com/daylight2.html
My heart goes out to new yorkers. This cannot be healthy. If there are long-standing health repercussions I doubt there will be any recourse they can take.
Is this data not polluted by the skyline? Or does it somewhat take buildings/the skyline into account, and correct for the shades of these objects?
Is the urban legend that it started out of controlled burn at WTREX conference true? Couldn't verify, but there are also no outlets debunking it.
Very cute, although I'd like to see what the results are like when choosing the dominant rather than the average color.
Such a simple idea, yet so well executed.
Things start to get interesting if you zoom out:
https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2023-06-10-08-5...
It's unfortunate you can't bookmark dates but really cool none the less.
I stiched the last two days of this into a quick Timelapse - very cool to watch. https://youtu.be/KTv6tqyr8YU
Related: https://www.nyctimescape.com/
The vague timestamps like "an hour ago" are an odd choice, since they're very non-unique.
With some kind of API to retrieve the colors the site would be really useful.
So simple yet beautiful!
national smoke map
Does this go back further than 2 days?
gosh darn I love this.
great domain name!
This is going to sound brutal - but citizens of New York... if there is anyone in the world to blame for this, it is you...
Sorry. I know that's horrid. But it's also true.
#50a7f1 from this morning is an incredibly beautiful blue
https://storage.googleapis.com/nskyc-3727d.appspot.com/nyc/1...
Makes me miss NYC.