Fred and Thibaud
As one of those people who live in the southern hemisphere the
convention of looking south does not work real well up here ;-))
When teaching students of architecture solar geometry I used to
suggest the convention of 'Equator facing' to look toward the sun -
this deals with
Thank you for the description, Fred.
However, somehow I felt knew this already, so I must have been
in the program somewhere.
When in the main screen, hit F1;
then, select Dates and Times.
Ah! _That's_ where I've got it from.
great program, that... thank you Fred, and Bob.
Rudolf
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Hi Mike,
I've had responses that indicate that Melville used a variety of methods to
attach gnomons, from leading them in, fitting them with "flanges" underneath to
the twisted tenons that you mentioned. No 2BA screws, though! So I am
convinced that the ones on the Dunmore (Ireland) dial are
Simply because dialists tend to look south towards
the sun - with hour angle and azimuth calculated from the sun's meridian
position. At this point we don't have any definite plans for a new version
of the program. If we do an update, we'll consider that
option.
Fred
- Original Me
Rene Vinck of Antwerp, Belgium has written about using an Astro Compass for finding wall declination in the current Volume 10 of the NASS Compendium.
The dialist's Companion would be so very useful to all those folk using these accurate instruments if it showed the sun's azimuth in 360 degrees f
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
Can the Dialist Compansion show both.
Message date : Sep 25 2003, 08:15 PM From : Fred Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To : Sundial List Copy to : Subject : Dialist's Companion
In a recent response to John Carmichael, I referred to some capabilities of the Dialist's Companion program. It seems that