Overview

Real Time Sky take a live sample of the sky from a webcam, and uses it as the background of this website.

Additional notes on process and implementation are available in a related post.

Demo

The original webcam is no longer available, but this page demonstrates the idea with data from the CAMNET New York City hazecam, which looks south over Central Park and updates every 15 minutes. The background of this page is the current sky over Manhattan.

Live view south over Central Park toward Midtown Manhattan from the CAMNET hazecam.

Outlined region becomes the page background. Last checked —.

Components

  • Webcam
  • Custom software
  • This website

Source Code

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