RE: Asop

1999-08-26 Thread Cordasco, Anthony (NJ Data Services)
You wrote: why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?' Aesop's Fables Baudelaire was writing about a poet (and an Albatross) but I think it could easily have been an astronomer; or a dialist. Le Poete est semblable au prince des nuees Qui hante

Re: Laser Trigon

1999-08-26 Thread John Davis
Hi Alexei, I have built a lightweight laser trigon from a laser pointer and some scraps of perspex. As well as producing hour lines and declination lines on arbritrary surfaces, the trigon also has an attachment that allows it to project analemmas about any hour line. I have written up the

Laser Trigon

1999-08-26 Thread Pace
Hello sundial friends Some time ago I read on some website about a Laser Trigon - which was a laser fitted onto an equatorial axis which I believe simulated the sun and could be used for the projection of the sun rays on any surface. However I have no idea where I saw this and would be grateful

Re: coordinates

1999-08-26 Thread Phil Pappas
Dear Francois: I ran your coordinates through the mapblaster program and determined that indeed they are for the location of City Hall, downtown. I didn't check other cities, though. In the mapblaster program there is an option similar to your's for which you give mapblaster the name of the

Re: Laser Trigon

1999-08-26 Thread Tony Moss
Alexei Some time ago I read on some website about a Laser Trigon - which was a laser fitted onto an equatorial axis which I believe simulated the sun and could be used for the projection of the sun rays on any surface. However I have no idea where I saw this and would be grateful if someone