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~ The Night Sky Ring ~

~ * ~ six small pages, one sky ~ holding hands since 1998 ~ look up ~ * ~

A webring: a circle of homemade pages, each linking to the next, so a visitor can wander the whole ring and come back to where they started. This one is about the night sky.

The ring bar

Every member wears this same bar somewhere on their page. It figures out where it sits in the ring on its own, no server, just a little list. Here it is running live:

The hub is the signpost, not a stop on the road, so the bar honestly notes that this page isn't itself in the ring. On a member's page it points at their neighbours instead.

The members

Six sites, in ring order, only Sandra's is a page you can really visit; the other five live in this story. Wander them with the bar above, or just pick one.

Sandra's Space Corner

kept by sandra · joined 1999

Binoculars, the Andromeda galaxy, and a grey cat on the masthead. The one that started the ring.

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The Backyard Observatory

kept by hal · joined 1998

One telescope, forty years of notes, scanned a page at a time. Hal founded the ring and still answers every email.

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Meteor Watch

kept by priya · joined 2000

The Leonids, the Perseids, and exactly where to stand to see them. Updated the night after every shower.

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Moon Diary

kept by jun · joined 1999

A photograph of the moon on every clear night, going back two years. Loads slowly. Worth it.

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Aurora Chasers

kept by ingrid · joined 2001

The northern lights, and the long drives north to find them. The photos never quite catch it. Ingrid keeps driving anyway.

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Flat Horizon Astronomy Club

kept by the club · joined 1998

Public star parties, second Friday of the month, weather permitting. Newcomers welcome; bring a flashlight with red cellophane.

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Join the ring

New members are always welcome. Here's the whole deal:

  • Your page is mostly about the night sky, stars, the moon, planets, the weather up there. Amateur is the point.
  • No autoplaying music. We are trying to hear the crickets.
  • Carry the ring bar somewhere a visitor can find it.
  • Sign the keeper's guestbook to apply. Hal reads everything.

Paste this where you want the bar, and point it at the ring's list:

<div class="rs-webring-bar" data-rs-widgets="webring"
     data-rs-webring-src="https://ring.example/nightsky.json">
</div>

No server of your own required, the bar reads the ring's list and works out your neighbours from the address of the page it is sitting on.