Re: analemmatic dial instructions

2000-12-05 Thread Chris Lusby Taylor
john hoy wrote: I've gotten a fair amount of email lately from people who want to make an analemmatic dial but are not comfortable with technical or theoretical explanations -- they just want a sundial. I've tried to prepare some simple, hopefully not confusing, instructions, which I

Re: analemmatic dial instructions

2000-12-05 Thread john hoy
Thanks very very much to all of you who responded to my request for input on the analemmatic dial instructions! Each and every one of you offered thoughtful and useful advice, most of which I will take. Adaptation to correct to standard time is way at the bottom of my priority list but I

Re: analemmatic dial instructions

2000-12-04 Thread Willy Leenders
Hello John, In your analemmatic dial instructions in the table for de coordinates of the hour markers I found a type error: in the column of the Y-values 0.996 must be 0.966. I calculated the declination values you use in the tangens function for the coordinates of the data scale (first