One control, both directions of travel. The Sun, the Moon and the galactic centre are recomputed from arithmetic as you drag — no request goes anywhere — by the same engine that reconstructed every photograph in this archive. Which is why the past and the future look the same here: the engine cannot tell them apart.
Oat Mountain, night of 15 August 2026. Times are mean solar time at that place.
- Time
- 00:07
- Sun
- −42.0° N
- Moon
- −44.0° WNW
- Moon lit
- 16%
- Galactic centre
- 5.2° SW
- Dark and moonless
- 7 h 27 min
Computed when this page was built by the same engine that reconstructed the archive — from the published area, meaning a centroid rounded to about 1.1 km and the middle of this place’s elevation band. No exact coordinate is involved, and no request leaves this page. A photograph’s own page carries the values computed from where it was actually taken; they agree with these to the 0.1° both are shown at.
- Sun
- Moon
- Galactic centre
- Dark and moonless
- A photograph