I love it!
If Tom can sell his neighbor on the esthetic upgrade to his house, it's a
great solution.
How does the geometry work out? Would the mirror need to be *very* high,
say, over 2 stories itself? Closer, or farther than Tom's South wall? I
guess the design trick would be to calculate a
I sketched out a vertical dial, figuring a mirror as the nodus on a pin
gnomon perpendicular to the dial face, using Fer J. de Vries' ZW2000
software. I used my northern California coordinates. It's a *little*
large, for a suburban home. A mirror 10 feet from the plane of the wall
seems to
Dear all,
I am going to Granada, Cordoba and Seville in Andalusia, Spain
very shortly and wondered whether somebody might be able to point out
a few dials or astrolabes in the area.
Thanks: Heiner
51N/1W
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Hi Tom:
Is a skylight hole in your roof possible?
This would eliminate most of your problems with mirrors. You don't need a
flat roof. A skylight hole could be used for any of the interior dials I
mentioned.
John L. Carmichael Jr.925 E. Foothills Dr.Tucson Arizona,
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I think I can now properly formulate my question: Is there a way to get
the sun's rays down to my room so I can have them illuminate an ordinary
sundial? (Without demolishing my neighbor's house or spending a ton of
money?)
Not perhaps
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Spirit had landed, and the first extraterrestrial sundial is on the surface
of Mars.
See the NASS Links page:
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Bob
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NASS Webmaster
Hello Heiner,
Go to http://inicia.es/de/RELOJANDALUSI/ This is a great website on sundials
in Andalusia.
Roger Bailey
Walking Shadow Designs
N 48.6 W 123.4
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There is an other solution:
Put a miiror high on your south facing wall which will reflect the sun on
your neighboors North wall.
Design a sundial for that North Facing wall of your neighboor. He will
never look at it but you see it all the time.
Thibaud
At 07:36 04-01-2004, you wrote:
I
It is not that difficult, mirror the neighbors wall in relation to the
mirror, so it will be some imaginary wall in Tom's house. The mirror is the
tip of the gnomon, or a little window whatever you like. The south facing
dial on the mirrored neighbors wall has to be mirrored back: left and
I have a nice, south-facing room.� The trouble is, my neighbor's
two-story house is about 10 feet away, due south.� Consequently,� if I
cut an aperture in my wall, the sun would find it only mid-summer.� The
rest of the time, my neighbor's roof would block the sun.� Demolishing
his second
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