Toscane dials

1997-05-25 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
In about a week I will visit Toscane for ca. 7 days. Can anyone tell me if there are sundials in Toscane which I have to visit because they are so special. --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Yvon Masse - response re. Inclination/Declination

1997-06-23 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
not yet familiar enough to attempt anything like this for myself and wonder if anyone out there has already done so? Tony Moss You can also try to make a spreadsheet. --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Foster sundials.

1997-09-22 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
it. A horizontal gnomon can only indicate the heigth of the sun, just like a vertical gnomon can only give you the azimut. --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Foster-Lambert-sundial

1997-09-14 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
-4132 Muttenz, Canton Basel-Land, Engeneering school. I would be grateful for any information. Best regards Karl Schwarzinger Austria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you describe the dial? --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL

from New York - student and sundial

1997-12-19 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
, Lori Kalikstein --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simulating Sunlight

1997-11-29 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
checked a sundial for the Southern hemisphere on it and it worked perfect! As lightsource they use a lamp with a large parabolic reflector which came from a searchlight out of Worldwar II. Hope this idea helps you. --- Thibaud Taudin

another sundial in Munich?

1998-02-18 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
it. Somebody knows about it? --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time Zone Names

1998-06-21 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
purchasing one, but it is incomplete, since it doesn't have the names of all the zones. - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max 1.2MB, in case of larger attachments contact me)

sundial in Central Park, New York

1998-07-28 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
the suggestion that there should be somewhere another gnomon. Is it gone or did I overlook something? Who knows more about it? Thiabud Chabot - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max 1.2MB, in case of larger

Re: Radius of the Earth

1998-08-03 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
, but you have a fixed observationpoint on the land. I am afraid you have to make a few corrections to the 94 meters! The refraction is dependant on the airpressure and the temperature. - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sunset times

1999-01-31 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
. I wonder if, being prepared, such a feat would be possible and whether anyone else has ever attempted it. Or was he just hauling my leg? Frank -- Frank Evans - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max

Re: Toys for boys (AND girls!)

1999-02-13 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
- Thibaud Taudin-Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max 500kB, in case of larger attachments contact me)

Re: dead reckoning

1999-02-15 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
and stop pushing. Sundials will return to these pages soon. Watch this space. Frank -- Frank Evans - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max 500kB, in case of larger attachments contact me)

Re: Magnetic compass

1999-03-24 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Taudin-Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max 500kB, in case of larger attachments contact me)

Re: Sundials not needing corrections

1999-05-13 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
;-) - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max 500kB, in case of larger attachments contact me)

Re: Act of 1752

1999-11-16 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
? By the way, the 1752 Act also applied to the UK Colonies including America (no offence intended). Frank 55N 1W -- Frank Evans - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52°18'19.85 North 04°51'09.45 East home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max

Re: A Sundial as a Prize

2000-10-13 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
- Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52°18'19.85 North 04°51'09.45 East home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max. 500kB; for larger attachments contact me first)

Re: A Sundial as a Prize

2000-10-15 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
- Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52°18'19.85 North 04°51'09.45 East home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max. 500kB; for larger attachments contact me first)

Re: FONTS

2000-11-15 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
sundial-font the program FCP3 which can be found at www.high-logic.com Thibaud At 14-11-2000 19:21 +, you wrote: -Original Message/Oorspronkelijk bericht-- Dear Font Experts, I have now downloaded the 'JSL Ancient Fonts from the Internet. A quick try shows that they

Re: Azimuth calculation

2000-11-16 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Taudin-Chabot 52°18'19.85 North 04°51'09.45 East home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max. 500kB; for larger attachments contact me first)

Re: Commercial Offerings

2001-02-23 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
A simple reply: Never accept commercials on a mailinglist. If you do you cannot control the list anymore. One of the reasons of success of all mailinglists as this one is that it is not cluttered with lots of commercial stuff. You should see my (snail)mailbox! Thibaud At 11:53 22-2-2001

address astrolabe?

2001-02-26 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
reproductions of a astrolabe. The address was: Georg Kerstensteiner, Isatorplatz 1, 8000 Muenchen 2. The shop isn't there anymore. Anybody knows where it is now? Do they have a website? - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52°18'19.85 North

Re: Time Zones

2001-03-28 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
- Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52°18'19.85 North 04°51'09.45 East home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (attachments max. 500kB; for larger attachments contact me first)

Re: Gluing Stainless to Aluminum

2001-08-29 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Try the link http://www.vantico-aandt.com/newco/addexn.html My experience is a 20cm wide 4 m long copper strip glued to a concrete base outdoor in the Netherlands: from +32°C to -20°C. Up till now no problems. Thibaud Chabot At 01:23 29-8-2001 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am

Re: RE: Gaztelainak hitz egiten duzu? (Off topic)

2002-07-22 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Thibaud At 23:11 21-07-2002 +0200, you wrote: Hello, And why not ESPERANTO ? It's a universal language, not based on the language war, but on human comprehension. Excuse me for this friendly off topic :-) Alain R MORY -

Re: Amsterdam Sundial

2002-07-26 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
. ___ Freeserve AnyTime, only £13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890 - - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52° 18

Re: Amsterdam sundial

2002-09-18 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Today I finally got the oppurtunity to check the 2 Amsterdam sundials on the New Church in the centre of the city. The churchwall is roughly declining 12° to the east. The big round sundial is mounted flat to the wall. So the style of the big dial is pointing to the left (seen from below) of

Re: Wall Dec

2002-10-22 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Thibaud Chabot At 09:06 15-10-2002 -0400, you wrote: Roger Bailey has adapted my MSworks (or, more aptly, MSdoesntworks) spreadsheet for finding wall declination to Excel Format. It is available at www.precisionsundials.com/software.htm, along with a word document explaining the method. -Bill

Re: How do we call the equinoxes?

2002-11-28 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
But our people at down under will call it reverse! March and September equinox are more general. Thibaud At 14:00 27-11-2002 -0700, you wrote: I like spring and fall equinox because it's less letters to carve. My customers always mix up vernal and autumnal. John John L. Carmichael Jr. Sundial

Re: Lady wants Polyhedral Dial

2002-12-17 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
T²C At 09:45 17-12-2002 -0700, you wrote: Hello Dial sellers: A lady wants to purchase a desktop polyhedral dial for New York but only has $100 to spend. I told her that her chances of finding one for that price were slim, but that I would send you her request. Her name is Esther Ammon at :

Re: Positively negative results!

2003-04-08 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
your question generates an other question for you: Do you have a complete step by step instruction how to etch a copperplate with a sundial pattern? What materials do we have to buy and how should we use them? Long time ago I etched sometimes a printed circuit, but I guess that is quite

Re: Julian Date and UbiSol

2003-04-26 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
American ephemeris' (1961) on page 71 the definition states: Julian Day Number which is defined to be 0 for the day starting at Greenwhich mean noon on B.C. 4713 January 1st, Julian proleptic calendar. Thibaud Chabot At 17:39 26-04-2003 +1000, you wrote: Anselmo I have a couple of

Re: Stained Glass Sundial Photos

2003-07-01 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
there are two different kinds of stained glass sundials possible: 1. the sundial is made in the stained glass itself and there is a style/gnomon on the outside. You can read this one from the outside or from the inside if the window is translucent enough to disguish yhe shadow from the

Re: Precise EOT Program

2003-06-13 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Check for the dialist companion on http://www.sundials.org/publications/dcomp/dcomp.htm Thibaud Chabot At 14:14 12-06-2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a handy precise program that calculates EOT values in minutes and seconds at particular times during the day. In other

Re: Stained Glass Sundial Photos

2003-06-30 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
About the construction/design look in the Compendium vol.1 nr.3 page 6 and 7. Up till now I have never seen or heard about one using stained glass. Thibaud At 08:27 30-06-2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello all: I've been considering contacting local stained glass artisans to inform them of the

Re: Sundial bridges

2003-10-07 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
know that the architect Santiago Calatrava is designing a 'Sundial Bridge' in Redding, CA , with an inclined tower acting as a gnomon. Do you know of any other examples of this? Kind regards, Megan Paris - - Thibaud Taudin

Re: Wall Declination Software

2003-09-03 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Just a practical remark for both of your programs: You mention the date format as mm/dd/ and the time format as H:M:S AM/PM but the programs accept only the date and time formats as defined in the Regional Options of the Control Panel on your PC. Thibaud Chabot At 10:20 03-09-2003

Re: Sundial Carpet

2003-09-07 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
That sundial is not 1 spot projected on the floor, but the whole sundial pattern projected on the floor. On the floor you only need 1 readingmark, nothing more. But the shadow of a spot on a window will be very difficult to find on a sunlit floor because the light of the sunlit floor is

Re: Place de la Concorde

2003-09-23 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
at the right side before the entrance. The obelisk at the left side of the entrance is still there. Thibaud Chabot At 12:56 23-09-2003, you wrote: The Place de La Concorde was constructed under the July Monarchy between 1936 and 1846 and an obelisk of Ramses II sent back from Luxor by

Re: Dialist's Companion

2003-09-26 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
A navigator is not a dialist. A navigator always wants to know where the North is, that is why North is upon your maps. A dialist looks always to the South and is turning left or right from that direction. Thibaud At 07:39 26-09-2003, you wrote: Why is the sun's azimuth shown as 180 degrees east

Re: Dialist's Companion

2003-09-27 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
John, You are one of the very few lucky guys who can say that gnomonists and navigators look the same way ;-) I hope for you that this might also reflect in the software. A pity that most of the software makers hardly think about you down unders, perhaps they should first visit you? Thibaud At

Re: Stained Glass Sundial Website

2003-09-29 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
. Tucson Arizona, USA Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sundial Sculptures Website: http://www.sundialsculptures.com Stained Glass Sundials Website: http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot

Re: Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
is not an option, he says. Tom Egan 33.642 N, 117.943 W- - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52° 18' 19.85 North, 04° 51' 09.45 East, alt. -4.50 m home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Thibaud Taudin-Chabot wrote: Tom, 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

Re: Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-05 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
attachment comes through, it should explain it... Dave 37.277N 121.966W On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Thibaud Taudin-Chabot wrote: Dave, Tom, 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

RE: Right Ascension

2004-01-16 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
W 123.4 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thibaud Taudin-Chabot Sent: January 15, 2004 2:40 PM To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Right Ascension At 20:37 14-01-2004, you wrote: Somewhat off topic, but how do you translate

Re: A 'gnomon-less' sundial for locations near the Equator ?

2004-01-18 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
. International Tel Fax: + 44 1294 552250. E-mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52° 18' 19.85 North, 04° 51' 09.45 East, alt. -4.50 m home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Schmoyer Design

2004-01-21 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
-01-2004, you wrote: I have updated the web page to show this: www.precisionsundials.com/sundial_list.htm -Bill - Thibaud Taudin-Chabot 52° 18' 19.85 North, 04° 51' 09.45 East, alt. -4.50 m home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Schmoyer Design

2004-01-21 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Taudin-Chabot 52° 18' 19.85 North, 04° 51' 09.45 East, alt. -4.50 m home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

largest sundial

1996-03-02 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
. It is the inner court of the Deutsches Patentamt, measuring 30x60 meters. The gnomon is a innercorner of the roof located at the 4th (5th?) floor. Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tip using this mailing system

1996-03-09 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
but it will keep you busy for some time. Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Earliest sunset

1996-05-05 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Earliest sunset is around 12 dec., but the latest sunrise is around 30 dec. Combining the two gives the shortest day at 21 dec. Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A few questions.

1996-06-19 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
: easier constructing and drawing the datelines. But also easier calculating on simple calculators and last but not least: the challenge. Good luck with your dial Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Star Grasper

1996-06-20 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
I would like to know whether it is still possible to get one 'The Star Grasper or Astrolabe' as was designed by Mr. Harold N. Saunders. ( I am NOT looking for the 'Universal Astrolabe' from the same author). Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sundial designed by Richard L. Schmoyer

1996-06-23 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
. It is constructed in such a way that it can be installed anywhere on the world. If possible I would like to acquire one because it is the sundial which started my interest for sundials. In the past 20 years I wrote to him 3 times but I never got any reply. Who can help me? Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL

Re: Almost a South Pole Sundial

1996-08-24 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
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Re: sundials in navigation

1996-09-11 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
at all (this is very seldom at sea). Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 10:59 09-09-96 PDT, you wrote: Are there references to the use of sundials in navigation? In the days before magnetic variation was mapped, they must have been useful (with the limitations of stability that a dial

Re: A request

1996-11-25 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
is asking if you are allowed to see it from a window from the topfloor. It is a master piece. Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Holey Calendar, Dateman! Was: Equation of time

1997-01-01 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
the daynumber changes at modnight, 00:00 hrs. A Julian day number changes at midday Greenwichtime, so at 12:00 hrs.GMT. Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clock setting

1997-01-07 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
no experience with these watches. There are many models of table/alarm clocks using DCF77 available in Europe. The brand name of Jungerhans is a well known one. I even saw the chips for receiver and decoder in a catalog. Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Astr Meeus

1997-03-01 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
I have a program Astro Meeus, ver.0.9. Once found somewhere on the Internet, but forgot where. Does anybody know where and if there is a later version? --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wish list for a new home.

1997-03-01 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
) --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun's Declination

1997-03-29 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
, pages 414-416. --- Thibaud Taudin Chabot, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: solar tracking sundial

2011-03-17 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Something like this: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:20100714-012_Amersfoort_-_Zonnewijzer.jpg Thibaud At 21:50 16-3-2011, Brent wrote: Hello; I have an idea to build a mechanical sundial. It would have a moving gnomon that would track the sun. If the gnomon was a hollow pipe, a spot of

RE: OBASIC on a 64 bit Windows 7 PC?

2011-04-15 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Mac, QB64 is also available for the mac and linux! (www.qb64.net) Thibaud At 19:13 15-4-2011, Mac Oglesby wrote: Hello Friends, My sincere thanks to those of you who responded to my plea for help in attempting to use QBASIC with a 64-bit Windows 7 (Home Premium) computer. Not sure which

Re: Sundial Beer Glass

2011-07-04 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
They are for sale, look at http://www.shop.analemma.nl/E_home.html and look under gifts. One of the items is the (beer)glass. Thibaud At 14:21 4-7-2011, Tony Moss wrote: On 04/07/2011 12:42, Jackie Jones wrote: Hi All, I thought you might like to see my latest sundial, designed with a

RE: mock stained glass sundial

2011-08-03 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
When you have the lines on the glasssurface closed to the style/reading point there is refraction error. So style and lines on the outside or lines and readingpoint (as used in dial#50) on the inside will give no trouble at all. Thibaud At 18:14 3-8-2011, karon wrote: Content-Type:

Re: Falling Tree

2011-08-11 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Why would that falling tree be different from other falling trees that are in our hearing environment? Thibaud At 16:39 11-8-2011, Bill Gottesman wrote: I think quantum physicists Neils Bohr and Erwin Schrodinger would say there is no sound until it is observed. But I don't understand this

RE: R: RE: Flow of medieval glass

2011-08-11 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
NO. Because something has a color because it reflects light of a certain wavelength. If there is no light there neither a reflection. Thibaud At 17:18 11-8-2011, Peter Tandy wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

Re: paper sundial

2011-12-16 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Thanks for the link. I tried to save the location data after having been logged in. That didn't work (yet). Thibaud At 12:09 15-12-2011, Fabio nonvedolora wrote: Hi all, news from the clouds. I’ve a toy for the end of the year. I don’t think this is the very last end of the year, like

Re: Why are schools, across the world, 'banning' analemmatic sundials ?

2012-05-15 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Did any of the schools ever mention what the danger is of an analemmatic sundial? Thibaud At 16:19 15-5-2012, Martina Addiscott wrote: Roughly one year ago, I had mentioned on this 'Mailing List' that our local Educational Authority would not permit us to install an interactive 'analemmatic'

Re: new app Sol Et Umbra for Android

2012-10-10 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
There are more interesting apps for android/iphone like Sunsurveyor. That one can come in very handy for sundial placement and design. There is a light ((free) version and a paid version with a lot more features. Thibaud At 22:49 9-10-2012, sun.di...@libero.it wrote: If you own an Android

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-07 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
This looks not logic. The unit symbol comes after the value and not in between. If you put the ° above the decimal . then what unit is the value after the decimal .? Everywhere the notation [value] [measuring unit] is used, even if the [value] has a fractional part. But an artist never really

Re: Visibly Moving Gnomon Shadows

2013-08-07 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Seeing a movement of the shadow is also dependent on the surface on which you see the shadow. If this surface is very even colored/structured it will be more difficult to see a movement then when the surface has such a structure (like fine grain) that it is easy easier to see the movement..

Sundial in BBC series

2013-08-19 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Yesterday (sunday) I saw the first part of the new BBC serie The story of measurement on BBC4. In it was a horizontal sundial of questionabvle design. The style foot was situated on the XII mark and the shadow was crossing many hourlines. I can't imagine that BBC didn't do any serious research

Re: Sundial in BBC series

2013-08-19 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
in Dutch): http://www.wijzerweb.behttp://www.wijzerweb.be Op 19-aug-2013, om 20:49 heeft Thibaud Taudin Chabot het volgende geschreven: Yesterday (sunday) I saw the first part of the new BBC serie The story of measurement on BBC4. In it was a horizontal sundial of questionabvle design

Re: Sundial in BBC series

2013-08-20 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch): http://www.wijzerweb.behttp://www.wijzerweb.be Op 19-aug-2013, om 20:49 heeft Thibaud Taudin Chabot het volgende geschreven: Yesterday (sunday) I saw the first part of the new BBC serie The story of measurement on BBC4. In it was a horizontal sundial

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-04 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
for my coordinates 52.30N 4.85E sumwait gives the times using the Western European time. However on the continent for this longitude the Central European time is used. At 17:49 4-9-2013, Rob Seaman wrote: And the winners are: Pyephem turns out to be layered on Elwood Downey's Xephem - can't

Re: sunrise/set/twilight calculators ?

2013-09-05 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
My pc has UTC+1 + daylightsaving time. UTC+1 is Central European time At 10:32 5-9-2013, Tony Finch wrote: Thibaud Taudin Chabot tcha...@dds.nl wrote: for my coordinates 52.30N 4.85E sumwait gives the times using the Western European time. However on the continent for this longitude

Re: 08:09:10 11/12/13

2013-11-12 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Come over to Europe and get a second chance. Here we have 11/12/13 in December (and be present at 14:15!) Thibaud At 19:18 12-11-2013, Bill Gottesman wrote: Did anyone catch this auspicious moment, 08:09:10 11/12/13? I missed it, but will go for another try this PM. -Bill

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-01 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
There is an android app called GPS averaging that can average many readings in order to get a more realistic value of the position. Thibaud At 10:44 1-5-2014, Frank Evans wrote: Greetings, fellow dialists, Ian Maddocks asks what dials are on whole number lat/long lines. During the BSS tour of

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: Map required

2014-08-17 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
is http://www.mapmaker.com/v3/index.htm a possible solution for you? Thibaud At 20:14 16-8-2014, Tony Moss wrote: Hi all, For a sundialling purpose I need a map of the British Isles in Mercator's Projection. All I have found so far is a webpage purporting to offer a Mercator print

Re: Deltacad

2014-11-15 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
[Options], Options, Default directory At 04:23 15-11-2014, Donald Christensen wrote: I'm running windows 7 Can I set deltacad to remember a certain directory? Or will it simply remember the last one? Cheers Donald Christensen 0423 102 090Â Â

Re: 3D printers

2014-12-10 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
For a affordable and reliable 3d printer with a high accuracy have a look at: http://www.mamba3d.com/ Thibaud At 02:11 5-12-2014, John Pickard wrote: Good morning, There was some discussion on the list a few months ago about 3D printers. One of the leading electronics stores in Australia is

Re: App for iPad

2015-01-14 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Not direct for sundialing but you might be interested in Sun Surveyor. There is free light version and a paid pro version. Thibaud At 17:36 13-1-2015, Larry McDavid wrote: Tony's report of this phone app for the iPad has made me wonder if any of us uses an Android app for a smart cell phone

Re: A translucent sundial

2015-07-28 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Where and how to read time? That picture fails.. At 07:50 27-7-2015, Chi lian Chiu wrote: ​Hi all, I am very glad to inform you that several pictures of the translucent sundial up in the sky as I mentioned two years ago are now available at

RE: A translucent sundial

2015-07-28 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
So it is actually the same as a window sundial but more or less in a horizontal position and doesn't project its hourlines on a surface to read time. At 12:47 28-7-2015, Robert Terwilliger wrote: If you hold your cursor to the right side of any image you will see a carat that will take you

Re: Construction of a Hemispherium

2015-09-14 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
I think a link for downloading would be handy as more people might be interested in this unique documentation. Thibaud Taudin Chabot tcha...@dds.nl __ Sent from eM Client | www.emclient.com -- Origineel bericht -- Van: "David Brown

Re: No decision on future of leap seconds

2015-11-23 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
The leap second is to get all clocks in the world synchronized to the sundials ... ;-) At 19:01 23-11-2015, Wolfgang R. Dick wrote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64ITU-R has decided not to decide anything now on the future of leap seconds, but has postponed a decision to 2023 - see

Re: Looking for minutes and seconds correction for whole year for Equation of Time plaque

2017-01-27 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Some time ago when I was able to use the mainframe computer of my employer I made a list of declination and time equation for each day for the years 2000-2099 and calculated the mean values for each date. I found the list again and attach it for who is interested. Thibaud Hi everyone,

Re: An interesting piece of timekeeping

2017-01-18 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
That is exactly the reason why I asked why that app wasn't created yet (for android) At 08:22 18-1-2017, Douglas Bateman wrote: For the iPad... Regards, Doug image1.PNG Sent from my iPad On Jan 18, 2017, at 5:25 AM, rodwall1...@gmail.com

Re: An interesting piece of timekeeping

2017-01-17 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Why didn't you create that app yet? Comming soon? ;-) At 04:10 17-1-2017, David Patte ₯ wrote: True, but if I can get 125 sponsors of $400 each I can write you a smartphone app that has all the same features, looks similiar, and is 10 times more accurate - and it will adjust to your local

Re: Dial face colouration

2017-02-26 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
My experience is use a mat finish sand color. It also matches with nearly every colorscheme. At 03:25 26-2-2017, Michael Ossipoff wrote: It seems to me that Steve's question has been mostly disregarded rather than answered. Not having experience with translucent dial-faces, I didn't know

Re: Terms to describe markings on dials (or other objects)

2016-10-28 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Recessed? __ Th. Taudin Chabot -- Origineel bericht -- Van: "John Pickard" Aan: "Sundial List" Verzonden: 28-10-2016 00:12:02 Onderwerp: Terms to describe markings on dials (or other objects) Good morning, As part of my

Re: STONE SUNDIAL

2016-11-02 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
How was it done with the stones of Stonehenge? At 21:09 1-11-2016, Dennis Cowan wrote: Does anyone know of a facility in the UK where a piece of stone from a sundial can be sent to try to establish where the stone originated from? Dennis Cowan Sent from my Mobile

Re: Great Circle Studios webpage gone?

2017-10-12 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
I google with your text "Great Circle Studio's solar data calculator" and find: http://www.redrok.com/solcalcjava1.htm I guess that is the page you want. Thibaud At 20:43 12-10-2017, Steve Lelievre wrote: I've tried to access the Great Circle Studio's solar data calculator a couple of time

Re: The utility of sundials today.

2018-01-15 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
A sundial is a timing device entirely driven by solar power and has an automatic and precise reset after powerfailure... ;-) At 20:26 14-1-2018, Willy Leenders wrote: When I talk about sundials, I get the question: "What utility can sundials have today?" In order to be able to give an

Re: Solving my Sundial-Quiz from this Week

2018-08-27 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Very easy to find the actual location of this sundial, check the details of the picture file: [] (Breedtegraad=Latitude, Lengtegraad=Longitude, 13.73075N 100.54244E) At 13:26 26-8-2018, Kurt Niel wrote: 1) The beautiful dial is within the Lumphini Park, centre of Bangkok, and is the “Swiss

Re: ...

2018-09-10 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
Why do some messages have such an enormous amount of junk text before the actually message? Can this be skipped in some way? Thibaud At 15:58 9-9-2018, John Goodman via sundial wrote: Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in

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