Greetings fellow dialists,
Thanks Richard Mallett and all for clarifications regarding the moon
landings and the strange case of the flag that fluttered. I raise my
right hand and declare that I have always believed that (brave) men
landed on the moon in 1969. Honest! However, nobody really
On the Chech coin of 20 Crowns is a picture of an astrolabe.
Is this a copy of an existing one or is it a design made only for the coin?
I was in Brno, Czech Republic last year and got one of these in
my change. I went back again later for a vacation and asked at our
hotel to see if
Somebody was kind enough to contact me with some improvements to my sundial
plotting macro for DeltaCad.
Unfortunately, I have accidentally deleted the mail item and can't remember
who the sender was.
Please resend!
Steve
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Hi, Frank!
You're right, I noticed no-one mentioned the sundial possibilities. The
biggest problem is that the Moon rotates so slowly. You will have
approximately equal days and nights of 14+ Earth days each! The equation
of time becomes extremely more complicated as well, as the Earth-Moon
Hi Frank,
In Jahreschrift 2000 der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie, Band 39,
Germany, is an article about dials on the moon, written by Heinz Sigmund.
I hope you can read German.
But isn't the earth the most beautiful sundial to look at if you are on the
moon?
Best wishes, Fer.
Fer J.
Fer J. de Vries wrote:
But isn't the earth the most beautiful sundial to look at if you are on
the moon?
Indeed. Moreover, I often like to point out that the Earth itself
has the distinction of being the world's largest terrella! ;-)
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