hemicyclium at cleopatra's needle

2002-06-25 Thread ronit maoz
Dear list members, IN the article The History of the Sundial : The Beginning of Recorded Time found at http://www.americanantiquities.com/articles/article14.html, I quote:' Almost 1500 years later, the emperor of Rome, Augustus (63 B.C. ñ 14 A.D.) moved Cleopatraís Needle to Alexandria,

hemicyclium at cleopatra's needle

2002-06-25 Thread Patrick Powers
Dear list members, IN the article The History of the Sundial : The Beginning of Recorded Time found at http://www.americanantiquities.com/articles/article14.html, I quote:' Almost 1500 years later, the emperor of Rome, Augustus (63 B.C. - 14 A.D.) moved Cleopatra's Needle to Alexandria, founded

Kitt Peak - the list of time marks

2002-06-25 Thread Robert Hough
Title: Kitt Peak - the list of time marks blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { margin-top: 0 ; margin-bottom: 0 } --> In working with John Carmichael on the layout of the dial markers at Kitt Peak we decided there was a need for a list of times for the 5-minute and special markers (about 190 of them).

Conference dials

2002-06-25 Thread john . davis
Hi Dialling Colleagues, For those of you who were not at the British Sundial Society Conference at Exeter in April, I have now put pictures of the dials that I displayed there on my website. It has a new URL: www.flowton-dials.co.uk Look out for * a new page on portable dials, including a

Re: Kitt Peak - the list of time marks

2002-06-25 Thread Luke Coletti
Hi Robert, Regarding the defining of your calculated values (times), I'm assuming that the sundial's shadow position would come from calculating the local solar hour angle in terms of standard mean time, if this is the case then you're already there. If not, then the calculated local