Fellow Shadow Watchers,
Many Thanks to all who have
sent me a variety of good personal photographs and many useful
references to this dial in New Zealand.
What a wonderful service the SML provides.
Tony M.
Hello Tony,
you can see some photos in
http://www.flickr.com/
search : Sundial, Christchurch Botanic Gardens
The sundials are two !
Other image in
http://www.proulx.com/~bob/photo_album/2006-02-new-zealand/2006-02-20-christchurch-gardens/17.html
Here I have read that the sundial was built in
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
A friend has just sent me a
jpeg of a fine New Zealand dial in the Christchurch Botanical Gardens.
He tells me the dial, which appears to be made of slate with a
brass/bronze gnomon, is about 1 metre across and from the picture
Hello sun dialists,
I have a question. As I said some months ago I want to calculate the earth's
orbital eccentricity, using my sun dial. I tried it in two ways. First I
followed the suggestion of Chris Lusby Taylor and used the Ptolemy model after
finding aproximate values for the vernal
