North American Sundial Society
Fifth Annual ConferenceOctober 8-10, 1999 Hartford CT
The fifth annual conference of the North American Sundial Society will be held
at the (newly renovated)
Hilton Hartford in Hartford, CT from October 8 through October 10, 1999.
Conference attendees must
Richard Mallett wrote:
It is good to know that there is some female interest
in your [NASS] Web page. The BSS is too heavily masculine,
so perhaps we need to emphasize the artistic aspects
of dialling a little more.
I agree, and if you review the illustrations of the sundial proposed
Thanks Tony and Luke for the excellent advice on this topic. This is a
thread well worth continuing. Thanks Guido for the good question.
There is a technique called intaglio for scratching lines in fresh mortar
to expose a dark layer underneath. I have seen beautiful designs, including
sundials,
Thanks Tom,
URLs are unforgiving. The correct URL for the sundial is
http://www.phys.washington.edu/edu/Department/tour/sundial.
Roger Bailey
At 03:02 PM 7/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Roger,
My Netscape can' t find:
http://www.astro.wahsington.department/tour/sundial
or
Waugh gives Feb 29 for both EoT and declination of the sun in tables
in the back of his book but I'm not sure what is going on here. For
instance, declination:
Date decl delta
February25 -9 24
22
February26
