RE: Sun tracks

2014-05-06 Thread Jack Aubert
://chezaubert.net/froggy2.jpg The sun tracks are really more of a secondary decoration than the point of the photos. Jack Aubert -Original Message- From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of rmallett Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:42 PM To: Bill Gottesman; John Foad

Re: Sun tracks

2014-05-05 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Do I see a retrograde? (Same azimut, different moments). Where is this picture made? Thibaud At 21:33 4-5-2014, Barry Wainwright wrote: The BBC has a series of pictures taken by pinhole camera at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-27221895 Image 7 is described thus: John Rigg: This is a

Re: Sun tracks

2014-05-05 Thread John Foad
:11 AM To: Sundial list Subject: Re: Sun tracks Do I see a retrograde? (Same azimut, different moments). Where is this picture made? Thibaud At 21:33 4-5-2014, Barry Wainwright wrote: The BBC has a series of pictures taken by pinhole camera at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-27221895 Image

Re: Sun tracks

2014-05-05 Thread Bill Gottesman
it was vertical or horizontal. John -Original Message- From: Thibaud Taudin Chabot Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 10:11 AM To: Sundial list Subject: Re: Sun tracks Do I see a retrograde? (Same azimut, different moments). Where is this picture made? Thibaud At 21:33 4-5-2014, Barry

Re: Sun tracks

2014-05-05 Thread rmallett
On 05/05/2014 14:03, Bill Gottesman wrote: Here is what I think: The can is laying on its side with its axis oriented north-south. A pinhole is made on the west side of the can (assuming this location is in the northern hemisphere, and that the zenith of the sun is toward the south),

Sun tracks

2014-05-04 Thread Barry Wainwright
The BBC has a series of pictures taken by pinhole camera at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-27221895 Image 7 is described thus: John Rigg: This is a six-month exposure using a pinhole camera made from an empty soup tin and photographic paper, not film. The resulting image is then scanned