You can build one of these.
https://www.mysundial.ca/sdu/sdu_wall_declinometer.html
From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Michael
Ossipoff
Sent: July 1, 2023 1:07 PM
To: Jeffery Brewer; sundial list
Subject: Re: Question About Measuring Wall Declination
I
I realize that you’ve already gotten good answers, but I’d like to say a
few things too.
…
I’m really late replying, because I’ve been trying to figure out how to
word answers to a few long assertion-posts from the usual confused
self-sure kids at a philosophical forum. After this time, I’m
Hi Jeffery you are actually calculating the horizontal angle indicated as
'angolo' on the diagram below
ie. deviation of the Sun from the wall under consideration.
Hope this helps,
Alexei
[image: image.png]
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 16:37, Jeffery Brewer
wrote:
> I'm attempting to measure the
I'm attempting to measure the declination of a wall using a method
described on this web page of The Sundial Primer
https://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/wall_declination.html (also described in
"Sundials: Their Theory and Construction" by Albert E Waugh Chapter 10).
Referring to Figure 1 of The Sundial
