Re: Seasonal markers for Analemmatic Sundials

2007-08-23 Thread Frank King
Dear Frans, You are right! Absolutely right! > > The expression now turns into a function of time: > > > > a . (coslat/cos(dec(t)) . sqrt(coslat^2 - sin(dec(t))^2) > > > > THIS is the expression to integrate over a whole year and > > whose average should be found. THAT result is where the > >

Re: Seasonal markers for Analemmatic Sundials

2007-08-23 Thread Frans W. Maes
Dear Frank &all, Frank King wrote: > The expression now turns into a function of time: > > a . (coslat/cos(dec(t)) . sqrt(coslat^2 - sin(dec(t))^2) > > THIS is the expression to integrate over a whole year and > whose average should be found. THAT result is where the > markers should be plac

Re: Seasonal markers for Analemmatic Sundials

2007-08-14 Thread Frank King
Dear Roger, No one seems to have responded to your interesting letter to the Editor of the BSS Bulletin. May I join in? SEASONAL MARKERS You write about Seasonal Markers on analemmatic sundials. Seasonal Markers are two special points on the major axis of the ellipse (of hour marks). If you s

Seasonal markers for Analemmatic Sundials

2007-08-08 Thread Roger Bailey
at your readers have a look at the original article. "Seasonal Markers for Analemmatic Sundials" was published in the NASS Compendium, in Sept 2003 and in the NASS "Sourcebook for Analemmatic Sundials" " Anyone is free to download the article at my personal website www.wa