Noon itself derives originally from nine or the ninth hour after
sunrise (probaby 3pm :-) and not when it is apparently highest in the sky.
Now isn't that interesting. By coincidence or not, the noon hour on old
Japanese dials and clocks is 9. There are a couple of math models that explain
Helllo Mac,
some answers were given to you.
My answer is "High noon" is correlated with the temporal
hour "None" used by the monks.
Butas the Benedict rules demanded to have no food
before this time it changed more and more foward.
The same thinghappenedwith
"vesper".
Best wishes
Klaus
Hello All,
Irecently saw a show on the Travel Channel (cable tv) which may be of
interest to those who have access to it.
The show was called "Voyager's Adventures" with Geraldo Rivera, and this
particular installment chronicled an expedition up the Amazon River in
Brazil. When they got to
Hi all:
Yesterday, I saw a VCR video tape that that a volunteer took of us marking
the Kitt Peak sundial. The best part of the movie was of the penumbra
rapidly moving along the projection screen just before, during and after the
morning style shift when the bottom style shifts to the east style
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I also want to edit out the bad parts.
I'd really like to include my little style shift movie in my PowerPoint
presentation for the NASS conference, but I'm not sure how to do it.
(Somebody told me that there are files called mpegs, like
Hold still, I think I see a nit!
The rate of change of the declination at the equinoxes is 24 arc-minutes per day, approximately equal to the size of the image of the solar disk, so if the spot is perfectly centered on the line at dawn, by dusk it should be nearly off one side. Actually, this
Hello Art,
"The rate of change of the
declination at the equinoxes is 24 arc-minutes per day, approximately equal to
the size of the image of the solar disk, so if the spot is perfectly centered on
the line at dawn, by dusk it should be nearly off one side. Actually, this
is cool, because
Hello
Dialists,
hello
Jim,
Have a
look at http://www.macapa-ap.com.br/and go
to Fotos da Cidade. There you will see the Monumento do Marco Zero. Is it that, what you are speaking of
?
Yours
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John,
I've seen your juxtaposition of the computed and observed hour points
at the Kitt Peak demonstration sundial. Congratulations on achieving
such excellent results. After weeks of preparation followed by days
spent on site, it must be extremely gratifying to you and the others
involved
