Re: sundial on the moon

2012-05-21 Thread David Patte
From a point on the moon, the suns motion is probably not smooth enough to build a usable sundial to measure a lunar day (which is close to a terrestrial month). And using 'earth light' on a lunar based dial would probably not be very effective either, since the earth's position in the lunar

RE: Solar Eclipse Sundial

2012-05-21 Thread Jack Aubert
We had one like that when I was living in Morocco. We had driven from Rabat to Casablanca to see it, and were sitting on a terrace drinking beer when it happened. I call them nebular eclipses. Jack -Original Message- From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de