00 / STATION 04 · ONE NIGHT, MEASURED · 18:36 → 06:00
The Observatory places masts, radiometers and acoustic arrays on buildings and film sets, reads them every second for weeks, and returns a log your engineers and your cinematographer can act on. The field behind this page is a live model of tonight. Scroll, and the night advances.
01 / WHAT WE MEASURE
Each feed drives the field behind this page. Switch one off to see what it carries.
02 / ONE CASE
A feature shot on a jetty in October. Mast W3 on the jetty, the array on the ridge, the radiometer on the crane. We logged the night; the crew planned by it. The field replays it as you scroll.
Light curve 30 min ahead of the take; colour temperature per slate.
Blue hour called for 04:52 at midnight. Rigged by 04:00.
Wind alarm at 20 kn; rain hold and restart from the log, not the sky.
Crew call. 1008 hPa and falling; the log already says the front lands before one.
Camera rolls. 9 kn from 214°, LAeq 46 dB — the array puts the generator at 118°; it moves.
Front arrives. 22 kn gusting 31. Cranes lowered at the wind alarm, not at the guess.
Rain hold. 58 dB of rain on the jetty; the set is struck under cover.
Pressure bottoms at 991 hPa. Wind veers north-west; the clearing is on the log two hours before the sky.
Clearing. Second unit resumes on the ridge.
Blue hour: 14 lx, 9 800 K. The gaffer rigged for this at midnight. Last take.
Wrap. Night log signed and delivered before breakfast.
03 / TONIGHT
This panel is read from the model behind the page at the moment you arrived here — the hour, the wind, the pressure under the pointer. Take it with you, or ask for a station on your site.
Ticks 10 px · hairline 1 px at 26 % · corner marks full phosphor.
Space Grotesk 300–700, display and text
JetBrains Mono 100–800, every reading
Both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 — see LICENSES.md.
RESOLUTIONThe sky behind this page is a fragment shader: value noise hashed in integers, warped twice, drawn as curtains and isobars in WebGL2. No photographs, no video, no library. Readings are a model of one night, not a forecast.
MADEBuilt for Plate, preview set A · one HTML, one CSS, three scripts · 2 files of type · 0 external requests.
Station 04 and ‘The Long Shore’ are fictional.