Hy Fabio
Nice Work , I printed it with my coordinates, and I checked and it works, I'll
follow up in time, I have my own machine to search the true north (where I
live, Southern hemisphere true South)My best regardsAxel
From: fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: solar compass
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:08:46 +0200
Hi all
about ‘finding North’ I have news of 10 years ago or more.
It is just a case but in these days I finished to update Nord.exe, a software
to get solar compass I wrote in the last century.
It needed to be renovated including the name, since it also printed solar
compass for the South Emisphere.
The software was made with Visual Basic, it was possible to download it from
internet and it was bilingual (italian and english).
While I was growing old, computers and OS became old too, even faster than me,
so in the new release I had to solve some troubles: Microsoft gave up Visual
Basic some years ago, the VB software doesn't run on Mac, 64 bit PC e the new
OS (Vista, 7) may have problems with this software, not to mention new
platforms and so on. So I decided to write a cloud version: the software run on
the server, you can use it with a web page, it is indipendent of your computer
or OS and every update is immediately available. Obviously an internet
connection is needed but if you read me that isn't a problem.
You can find the software in a page of Sundial Atlas, this is the link to reach
directly it:
www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?gnomolab=2
Insert the coordinates (orange asterisk next to latitude), choose UTC, set some
layout options, push the 'drawing' button, wait for few seconds and you will
get a pdf document with the solar compass, then you can print it or save it.
In Sundial Atlas you can also reach the solar compass page from the card of a
sundial (the link is in the right column); in this case the compass is already
setted with the coordinates of the sundial.
It is possible to customize the solar compass with a text and setting layout
options, I tested the software with many different schemes, anyway if you find
bugs or you have suggestions or you need any info, please contact me.
from the clouds, ciao, Fabio
Fabio Savian
Paderno Dugnano, Milan, Italy
45° 34' 10'' N, 9° 10' 9'' E, GMT+1 (DST +2)
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