RE: Old sundial pictures

2011-06-29 Thread Schechner, Sara
Did I miss part of this thread? I am curious to see the images referred to. Are they posted on a website? Sara 42°21'N 71° 14'W -Original Message- From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Donald Christensen Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 20

Re: Old sundial pictures

2011-06-29 Thread Donald Christensen
Kevin I really like the St Petersburg one! the other black and white g792092 is another great one. Thank you. Does anyone have any older ones? A scanned image from a book will do. dchristensen...@gmail.com On 6/30/11, Kevin Karney wrote: > Hi Donald > Any of these of any use? > I personally l

Re: School analemmatic sundial

2011-06-29 Thread darkroom3
I have no idea what dangers a analemmatic dial would have if it were painted on a playground. If the hour points were on posts sticking out of the ground I guess someone could trip but that would not be a logical way to build one on a playground anyway. I have read parts of the controversy a

Re: Future of UTC / leap second

2011-06-29 Thread Tony Finch
Wolfgang R. Dick wrote: > Some time ago, there was a dicussion here on the future of UTC and > theleap second. Therefore I think that this announcement could > be of interest to some members. See also this preprint from American Scientist. Note that the people involved in both the article and th

Re: School analemmatic sundial

2011-06-29 Thread Tony Moss
On 28/06/2011 16:43, Martina Addiscott wrote: Dear Pat, Thanks for contacting the "Sundial Mailing List", and no doubt other members will also respond to your enquiry about an Analemmatic dial. Our local Educational Authority would not allow us to have the full- size version on our playgro

Re: Old sundial pictures

2011-06-29 Thread Tony Moss
On 29/06/2011 01:13, Donald Christensen wrote: Tony Thank you. That is exactly what I'm looking for! I'm still looking because I want more pics like the one you sent me. Hi Donald et al, The image Donald refers to I sent directly to him. I called it 'Old Gentleman Re