Re: Using a Dipleidscope

the NASS dialist companion will give you solar noon to the second. I think it is free at the NASS website. If not, I can run it for you. Bill Gottesman In a message dated 3/23/2003 5:53:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Gordon: I'm looking for time down to

Re: Using a Dipleidscope

Can someone tell me the California (PST) time when the Sun is South for the next few days. I'm at 123:09:50.548 W, 39:11:24.692 N. Maybe the Dipleidscope can be used as a reflecting ceiling dial. Brooke Clarke -

Re: Using a Dipleidscope

I'm looking for time down to seconds, this site only has minutes. Thanks, Brooke Gordon Uber wrote: Brooke, Go to the USNO site and get the time for the solar transit. It accepts cities or latitude and longitude. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html Today it's 11:55 AM.

Re: On Meridian dials

Heh... It depends upon which hand I hold the GPS receiver in! Dave 37.28N 121.97W On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Frank Evans wrote: Greetings fellow dialists, Dave Bell in his recent message signs himself as below: Dave 37.406847N 122.027872W (at work) Might it be that this position is a couple

Re: On Meridian dials

Greetings fellow dialists, Dave Bell in his recent message signs himself as below: Dave 37.406847N 122.027872W (at work) Might it be that this position is a couple of thou. out? (To metric users a thou. is a thousandth of an inch.) Frank 55N 1W (give or take a bit). -- Frank Evans -

Re: Using a Dipleidscope

Go to the USNO site and get the time for the solar transit. It accepts cities or latitude and longitude. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html Today it's 11:55 AM. Gordon At 11:16 3/23/03 -0800, Brooke Clarke wrote: Hello: Can someone tell me the California (PST) time when

Elliston Park Analemmatic

Hi Roger Bailey: I just gotthe March Compendium and saw your beautiful new Elliston Parkhuman analemmatic sundial in Calgary on the cover. It's in a wonderful park setting and will get much use I'm sure. I like thesculptural presence of the hour posts with their numbersand the shadows they

Shadow article

Hello Gianni: I just read with great interest your great new Compendium article: The Shadow and Penumbra of a Rectilinear Element- Some Observations. It was interesting to see your mathematical treatment of things we actually observed when working at Kitt Peak. You took a lot of loose

Re: Using a Dipleidscope

Hi all, I once built a declination-finder based on the dipliedoscope principle. The double-view of the sun was observed through a low power telescope, using an eclipse filter to make this safe. Mike is right in saying that locating the sun through the telescope is difficult. I fitted a

when the sun is south in Ca.

calculate it for 39.1 N, 123.1 W, no more accurate. Hello: Can someone tell me the California (PST) time when the Sun is South for the next few days. I'm at 123:09:50.548 W, 39:11:24.692 N. Maybe the Dipleidscope can be used as a reflecting ceiling dial. Brooke Clarke - -

Re: Using a Dipleidscope

I wonder if the original Dipleidscope was painted black? There isa Dent dipleidoscopein the Liverpool Museum that is painted black. I persuaded the curator to get it out of display for me to look at on a sunny day. I couldn't work out how to use it, and felt in danger of blinding myself

Most Northerly dial?

Fellow Shadow Watchers, I've just been asked to consider designing a sundial for a VERY high northerly latitude accompanied by the query Would this be the most northerly known sundial? What are the existing likely candidates for such an honour? Tony Moss -