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📸 Aurora Photography Simulator: Camera Settings for the Northern Lights

Adjust shutter speed, ISO, aperture, white balance and manual focus on a virtual night-sky camera to see how each setting changes an aurora borealis long-exposure photograph.

Computational Photography3DEasy60 FPS⚡ Plasma

Details

CategoryComputational Photography

RenderingThree.js · WebGL

DifficultyEasy

Target FPS60

ControlsShutter speed slider (1-20s) controls motion-trail length and star trailing; ISO slider (400-6400) sets exposure brightness and simulated sensor grain; Aperture slider (f/1.4-f/4) sets light-gathering power; White balance slider (2800-6500K) tints the shot warm or cool; Manual focus slider (0-100%) sharpens or blurs a zoomed live-view star, mirroring the article's night-focusing technique; Aurora activity (Kp index 3-9) slider changes the storm's brightness, speed and colour spread with a live UK-visibility readout; three preset buttons (Faint / Active / Storm) load realistic setting combinations.

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⚙ Under the hood

Adjust shutter speed, ISO, aperture, white balance and manual focus on a virtual night-sky camera to see how each setting changes an aurora borealis long-exposure photograph.

Three.jsPhotographyAuroraNight PhotographyCamera SettingsInstancedMesh

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install