WhatTheStar · /design
compositions bortle-slider

    BortleSlider

    How dark the sky is where you are standing, on Bortle's 1—9 scale, wrapping a <Slider> whose track is the sky it selects: the gradient is the atmosphere shader's own ((bortle − 1) / 8)² curve, so classes 1—4 stay genuinely dark and the damage visibly starts at 5.

    The reading leads and the jargon follows. The control used to be labelled BORTLE SCALE — a surname as the primary label — with the only phrase a reader could act on demoted to a caption. It renders inline; on the map it is the first control in SkyConditions.

    Rural sky

    3

    Bortle 3 ·

    The engine is not running here, so the handle moves and the naked-eye limit stays blank.