Hi all,
Perhaps this topic is a bit off list but does anyone on the list know
how the U.S. armed forces set their clocks and watches during the
Pacific campaigns from 1942 to 1945?
Did they adopt a common time zone (Hawaii, Midway, UT, UT+12h) or did
they adopt the time zone of the region that
may I invite you to have a look at a probably new type of sundial,
an analemmatic equatorial sundial with light-pointer,
built by my friend Dietrich Ahlers.
His HALBE - ACHT - sundial
can be seen at the Homepage of Olbers-Planetarium Bremen as sundial of the month March.
Either you start at:
anything in English on how it works? its
beautiful!
Dave
Scott
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anything in English on how it works? its beautiful!
Dave Scott
Thanks, Dave!!
I'll hand your question over to Dieter Vornholz.
Regards
Reinhold
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Hi Reinhold,
An excellent dial - thank you for sharing it with us.
Being pedantic, I would describe it as analemmic dial, rather than an
analemmatic one, but that doesn't detract from its quality.
Regards,
John Davis
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anything in English on how it works? its beautiful!
Dave Scott
Either you start at:
http://www.hs-bremen.de/planetarium
and choose bottom right Sonnenuhr des Monats (sundial of the month)
or go directly to:
Dear Reinhold,
Thank you for your link to the new sundial at the
site of Planetarium Bremen.
It's a beautiful sundial and I enjoy it very
much.
But
There is a but.
The dial is called an "analemmatic equarorial
sundial with light-pointer".
No problems with "equarorial sundial with
Oh, it's a really nice one, but as far as I
remember, there is a hint in Rafael Soler's
book on a dial like these (in the chapter about
equatorial sundials). Anyhow,
it's just a hint, not the whole device as you
show.
Anselmo
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Oh, it's a really nice one, but as far as I remember,
Hi All
I often email drawings and pictures of sundials to clients and people on
this list. But I always have to be careful not to send too many at once, or
my email will reject my mail for being too large. To email photographs, I
use JPEG format. And to send Delta Cad drawings I scanned the
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