Dear All,
I have had a request to construct a moon dial for a vertical east-facing
wall.
This is new territory for me.
Can anyone point me in the direction of sources/computer programmes that
would give me guidance?
David Brown
Somerton, Somerset, UK
---
Hi Doug:
I recently got a used CSI LGBX Pro DGPS Receiver.
This is a CSI long wave beacon receiver with an integrated Ashtech 12 channel GPS receiver iwth an antenna that receives
both of them.
The display option with the most resolution is dddmm. and it seems to be
good to less than one f
Many thanks to all who, as typical of the list, sent relevant and interesting
posts. I would like to comment on some as follows:
IM: the confluence website - crazy but yet more fun.
RM: the old civil 'degradation' of accuracy of GPS was removed many years ago.
Dedicated GPS receivers are more
Dear Paul et al,
> Too bad there wasn't any sunshine
> for the unveiling, as I see no
> hint whatsoever of a shadow.
It was a typical U.K. wet afternoon!
You can see another pic at:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Human-sundial-unveiled-on-Jesus-Green
-commemorates-Cambridge-sculptor-
Dear Jim,
I have just published a small book 'A Study of the Quadrant' that does have a
few pages about the Gunter device. It has just 6 pages describing their use and
functions with various photographs.
Your book on 'The Astrolabe' was very useful to me in producing my book. Thank
you.
Another
Greetings. fellow dialists,
Astronomical purists may feel uneasy but the easiest way to find south
if there are any buildings about is to look at the satellite dishes.
Around here they point a little east of south and they presumably point
near to south throughout the northern hemisphere.
Fran
Hi Jim et al,
Sutton's quadrant was described at some length in a two-part article:
M. Lowne & J.
Davis: ‘A Horizontal Quadrant of 1658 by Henry Sutton; Part 1’, BSS Bull.,
23(ii) 8-13 (Jun
2011).
with the second part in the following issue.
Regards,
John
---
Dr
