Solargraph in New Scientist magazine and on the web

2008-10-13 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hello, everyone, Slightly off-topic, but fun : New Scientist magazine for 2008-10-04, page 46, features a solargraph - an image that shows the track of the sun's position over time - that was made using a pin-hole camera pointed at the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol UK. The image was c

Re: 360 degree

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Lelievre
Brent, Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time - French Revolutionary Time and Fractional Days both seem to have a bearing on your Angular Clocks. Why go with 100 degrees in a day? Radians are a well understood, and completely suitable alternative. Lunchtime would become Pi

How to force spreadsheet to create printable graph with same scale in X and Y?

2011-06-21 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi, I sometimes use a spreadsheet to calculate a series of X,Y points, and then use these points to create a scattergram chart. My problem is that whenever I do this, the chart appears on the screen as a rectangle. The X and Y dimensions aren't to the same scale. I have to set the gridline in

Re: Nabta Playa calendar circle

2011-08-12 Thread Steve Lelievre
On 12/08/2011 6:21 AM, Richard Mallett wrote: There is a paper in Nature that describes the Nabta Playa calendar circle (and maybe other stuff) :- Malville, Wendorf, Mazar and Schild "Megaliths and Neolithic Astronomy in Ancient Egypt" Nature 392 (488-490) 1998 How do I get a copy of this pa

Minimum size (was Re: the nature of time, was RE: UTC Conference)

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
On 15/08/2011 3:52 PM, karon wrote: the smaller [sundials] are, by definition, the less precise they can be. This statement got me wondering how small can a sundial be, before hitting the limits of our visual acuity. Here's my thinking: Shadow blur imposes a limit of about 2 minutes of tim

Using sundials to monitor the passage of time

2011-09-13 Thread Steve Lelievre
uestion: are there other examples of sundials being used even today, to measure the passage of time for ‘real world’ purposes? Steve Lelievre Fredericton NB Canada --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial

Re: DXF to HP plotter conversions

2000-04-07 Thread Steve Lelievre
All, I too have tried Bob's method of diverting HPGL printout to a file. I then used an HPGL viewer to look at the resultant diagram.There's something odd which I don't understand: The original diagram uses several line width, the plot file lines all look the same. Also, the original diagram has

Re: DXF to HP plotter conversions

2000-04-10 Thread Steve Lelievre
A few days ago I asked questions about the appearance of a DeltaCad drawing which I had sent to an HPGL plot file using the method posted by Bob (putting an HP5785A on a file redirection device ). I have investigated further using the HPGL information provided by Thibaud T-C and viewer advice from

Re: DeltaCad

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Lelievre
In response to a mail item from Mac and a posting by Fer asking for more code to be shared, I have decided to publish my DeltaCad macro for plotting horizontal Standard Time dials, (the type that are drawn by Fer's "SPIN" program). You can choose either azimuth or polar-axis style. The program is

Re: SCADD

2000-04-26 Thread Steve Lelievre
Peter, As I mentioned in my earlier note, I took out Southern Hemisphere support while I struggled to understand how your dials would look. I'd still appreciate answers to my earlier note, but in the mean time I've posted a new version of SCADD that does accept SH coordinates and caters for your

Re: Fonts and plotters

2000-04-26 Thread Steve Lelievre
John, > The gnomon on your dial is a verticale pin at the center of the cross, > and half as tall as the cross, right? Not sure which case you mean. In the polar-axis case, you're making a Horizontal Dial. The gnomon climbs at an angle from the centre of the dial (the centre of the cross). It yo

Re: analemmatic program & fotos

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Lelievre
John, The NASS site has some DeltaCad macros. As regards how big to make the dial, I suspect that people size will not be a meaningful starting point. In the extreme case, there is hardly any shadow. Your dial is S.Calif - say about 33 and a bit degrees N. At the Summer solstice, the sun at noo

Determining hour-angle from azimuth

2000-12-12 Thread Steve Lelievre
I'm trying to convert an azimuth value into an hour-angle, and would appreciate some help with the formula and with my algebra. Using dcl=declination, lat=latitude, azi=azimuth,ha=hour-angle, I started with a standard formula for azimuth given hour-angle: tan(azi) = sin(ha)/(sin(lat)*cos(ha) + ta

Re: Determining hour-angle from azimuth

2000-12-12 Thread Steve Lelievre
Thanks to Jorge Ramalho for pointing out a sign error in my last message. It should have read as below. I still have the same questions, tho' Steve I'm trying to convert an azimuth value into an hour-angle, and would appreciate some help with the formula and with my algebra. Using dcl=declinatio

Re: Determining hour-angle from azimuth

2000-12-13 Thread Steve Lelievre
Bill, John, and others, Thanks for your replies. I'll read and absorb. Steve

Re: Determining hour-angle from azimuth

2000-12-14 Thread Steve Lelievre
Gordon said: > > From Jean Meeus's "Astronomical Algorithms," 1951, p. 89: > > > > tan H = sin A / (cos A * cos f + tan h * cos f) > > > > where H is hour angle, A is azimuth, f is latitude and h is altitude, > > and H is obtained via the arctangent. to which Bill said: > > But note that i

Re: revised optical resolution table

2000-02-12 Thread Steve Lelievre
- Original Message - From: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I think it would be more useful for a sundial designer to have the table in a > more useable form that lists the maximum distance of visibily for different > widths. (I picked 1/16 inch increments because these are the size

The analemma

2000-02-12 Thread Steve Lelievre
For your info: There is an article in the most recent edition of Sky and Telescope magazine about "photographing the analemma". It describes how photos have been taken which show the movement of the sun. They rely on time lapse (either 365 or 12 exposures over the course of a year), with each ex

Re: Dennis di Cicco's Image

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
I reckon the state of the tree is a clue too. It looks deciduous to me, so we ought to see exaggerated dark veins due to bare branches from the winter part of the image. The branches will be displaced by winds, so the tree ought to look blurred. The dark blue sky and dark shades of green in the tr

Re: Dali dial rings & gnomons

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
- Original Message - From: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:27 PM Subject: Dali dial rings & gnomons > HI all: >... >Apparently, ring order and number of > rings are not important. Am I correct? >... > I know we discussed the Dali azmuthal d

Other Dali dials

2000-02-22 Thread Steve Lelievre
At present, I can't see any reason why the wriggley lines of the Civil Time adjusted Azimuthal dial (a.k.a. Dali dial) should not apply to other types of dial, thus eliminating the need for an Equation of Time plaque. Using the Horizontal dial as an example, if the 12 o'clock line were to wriggle

Re: thumbs down on azimuthals

2000-02-24 Thread Steve Lelievre
Art wrote : >The flexibility of choosing the shape and location of the date > rings remains (pro 1), so an Arizona dial, for example, is still > possible. I concur. >Will one of you that has been > posting azimuthal dial plate designs please plug in a polar gnomon for > me? > > Are you interest

Re: Azimutha Sundial (once more)

2000-02-25 Thread Steve Lelievre
Gianni wrote: >Since I could not call azimuthal these solar clocks (because they don't have > this characteristic even if their shape look like azimuthal) I have > called them (in my program with which them can be calculated) "Monofilar" > since the shadow is made only from one style or " t

Re: Azimuthal sundials - again

2000-02-28 Thread Steve Lelievre
Gianni wrote: >The Monofilar and Bifilar sundials can be built with any kind of Time: >Middle Time (Standard), Local Apparent Time, with Italic, Babylonian, >Temporary hours, etc. Ah ha! I must have misunderstood the issue being discussed. I can see that in abstract terms that we have dials

Re: Azimuthal sundials - again

2000-02-28 Thread Steve Lelievre
>From: "Daniel Lee Wenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I should point out that my dial reads time by a > projection of a point onto a point (the first point being on a surface) Oops, I knew that... > and that it reads standard time. ...but I didn't know that. Apologies, Steve

Rules of thumb

2000-01-23 Thread Steve Lelievre
I'm relatively new to dialing, and indeed this is my first post to the mailing list (but I've lurked here for a few months). I'm also a great enthusiast for using "rules of thumb" in everyday life, but so far I've not found many cases where I can put the two together. I'm hoping that this posting

Nought at noon

2000-07-18 Thread Steve Lelievre
I have recently seen a couple of dials which use a nought (a digit zero) in place of XII, whereas the rest of the hour labels are in their usual roman numeral forms. In other words, they run VI, VII...XI, 0, I, II...VI. One dial is from the 1950s and the other from the 1960s. They are both located

Re: Nought at noon

2000-07-20 Thread Steve Lelievre
Fer wrote: > In France there are a number of dials with the noon line labeled with M. I guess the M is for something like midi or meridiem. Can a Francophone please confirm. Steve

Swivel mounting

2000-06-05 Thread Steve Lelievre
I recently came across a sundial on a swivel mounting, and I don't understand the purpose of the mounting. Can anybody enlighten me? The location is Chester, Nova Scotia, on the waterfront. It is a commercially produced dial in the form of an armillary sphere. I have seen similar but slightly sim

Vocabulary

2000-06-05 Thread Steve Lelievre
Oops, in my last posting I was duped by my spell-checker into using the word 'gnomic' instead of the intended 'gnomonic', which the software doesn't recognise. Hope I didn't confuse you. Steve

Coming equinox

2000-03-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi all, It's only a few days to the equinox, which happens here in the middle of the night (3:35 AST). I'm going to use the previous evening and following morning to use a pole's shadow to make myself an East-West line, to compare to my existing NS meridian line. I hope to find that they are at r

Re: Coming equinox

2000-03-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
Jim wrote > I used xephem 3.2.3 to solve for when solar declination = 0.0 and got > 2000 March 20 7:30:59 UTC. Xephem calculates that the declination of > the moon at that time to be 2:50:47.5 (degrees:minutes:seconds). I take this to mean that the moon's plane of orbit is tilted too far from Ea

Azimuth dials - again

2000-03-21 Thread Steve Lelievre
Is there anybody out there with a program for creating azimuth dials, where the program makes adjustment for a cylindrical gnomon, as opposed to a line/wire, and where the time is read on the leading edge of shadow. If so, please contact me by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I would like to check

Re: DeltaCad vs. TurboCad

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Lelievre
John wrote: > Which is better, DeltaCad or TurboCad? What's the difference? I can't comment on the differences as I have only used DeltaCad. I can warn you that there is a bug in DeltaCad which causes spurious error messages when editing text items, if the screen resolution is 1280x1024 or high

Re: DeltaCad vs. TurboCad

2000-03-23 Thread Steve Lelievre
John wrote: >{clipped}..I was very happy to find DeltaCad available online for only 39 dollars. There is a 10USD shipping surcharge for destinations outside the USA. For euro-zone buyers the total price equates to just under ?50 (or more if you get caught for import duty). Steve

Re: DeltaCad vs. TurboCad

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Lelievre
The situation seems to be: Illustrator costs about 400 USD+shipping, whereas DeltaCad is about 40 USD+shipping. DeltaCad shares the basic facilities which Tony mentioned for Illustrator - dilation, rotation, translation - but not the distorting operations such as shearing and stretching text to

Re: DeltaCad vs. TurboCad

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Lelievre
I sense a hint of sarcasm in this note, which I take to be an invitation to shut up, which I shall now do - with apologies for boring the rest of you. Steve > I find this discussion very interesting, especially the tutorial on the > fabrication process. My impression is that everyone involved i

Re: DeltaCad vs. TurboCad

2000-03-27 Thread Steve Lelievre
Steve You said: > Certainly not intended, in fact I wished to join in from another perspective. Then I hope my reaction has not embarassed you. > If you have a 3D CAD model, please send. I do not have anything in 3D. Let's hope somebody else can post a drawing for you. I was banging on about

Re: DeltaCad

2000-03-29 Thread Steve Lelievre
Bob wrote: > While I have only had the demo version of DeltaCad for a few days, I > have some observations. Perhaps others can provide > more. I have observed these problems with DeltaCad. Regards, Steve 1) If your PC graphics mode is 1280x1024 or greater, the functions for text editing misbeh

Re: pinhole picture of a sundial

2000-10-25 Thread Steve Lelievre
Mac wrote > I'm going to need a little help understanding this sundial, but the > pinhole photography is very nice. Me too. It's intriguing. Why are the hour labels mirror images and run anticlockwise starting with 12 at the bottom? (or has the photo been accidentally mirrored about its vertical

Re: Fonts for sundials

2000-11-10 Thread Steve Lelievre
John asked: >Does anyone know of a good source for computer fonts (preferably Windows-compatible) of antique >characters Adding to John's request, can anyone give me details (name, source of download) of the British public sign font, used for most of the offical signs in public places - the one

DeltaCad news

2000-09-22 Thread Steve Lelievre
Ron, Have you heard any dates for the next DeltaCad release, with the upgraded dxf handling? To all DeltaCad users, For information, I just noticed that the DeltaCad site has a new patch for version 4, dated 20th Sept 2000. (download from http://www.deltacad.com/patch/patch.exe ) At last I'm

Fw: DeltaCad news

2000-09-25 Thread Steve Lelievre
Following message forwarded to list on behalf of ++ron. Regards, Steve. > Have you heard any dates for the next DeltaCad release, with the > upgraded dxf handling? > > Thanks for reminding me. I have sent a note to Midnight Software asking > about the DXF upgrade. I have also asked for a lis

How do I turn my DeltaCad design into reality? Machine cutting question

2000-09-18 Thread Steve Lelievre
I would like to take a design made under DeltaCad, and get it cut into a brass plate. None of the local engravers can handle the job (they just do little plaques for sports trophies). The only local millwright does not have computer controlled cutting machines. The local signwriter can accept elec

Water filled sundial at Herstmonceux

2000-06-07 Thread Steve Lelievre
I just came across a photo of a water filled sundial at Herstmonceux, England, but unfortunately there is no background information given. The photo is at http://www.ualberta.ca/~droles/astro/astrav/Sun2.html I can not find any information about this dial on AltaVista or Yahoo. Can anybody provid

Wall calendar

2001-01-12 Thread Steve Lelievre
My wife tried to find me a shop-bought calendar with sundial pictures for a Christmas present. No luck, so I'm thinking it would be fun to create one for 2002, and post it on the Web. My idea is to produce a MS-Word document (or perhaps Acrobat) with the usual monthly grids and pictures, and a sn

Re: Wall calendar

2001-01-12 Thread Steve Lelievre
This is a post scriptum to my last message: If you've got any comments / input for this little project, please contact me off-list. Thanks, Steve

Ornamental stands for sundials

2001-02-16 Thread Steve Lelievre
I want a stand for a small horizontal sundial, but the ornamental plinths and birdbaths sold locally are expensive and would be rather hard to modify. Getting something carved by a local mason is way beyond my means.. I'm thinking of making something myself by casting it in concrete. Addition of

Re: Circumference of ellipse

2001-03-19 Thread Steve Lelievre
Willy said: > The question of Frans Maes was not: "Give me a formula for the circumference of an ellipse." > but "Give me a NON-mathematical, intuitively convincing explanation for the fact that > there is no 'simple' formula for the circumference of an ellipse." > > I think we are mostly taked u

Re: Time Zones

2001-03-28 Thread Steve Lelievre
Thierry wrote: >So it's not France who distinguishes from the rest, but ...UK who are the sole > to insist on 'their' GMT time (nowadays called UT). >(I should check for Ireland, but I'm pretty sure they are on WET/WEST too.) Ireland is on the same timezone at the UK, and so is Portugal. It seem

SCADD

2001-04-18 Thread Steve Lelievre
Somebody was kind enough to contact me with some improvements to my sundial plotting macro for DeltaCad. Unfortunately, I have accidentally deleted the mail item and can't remember who the sender was. Please resend! Steve Want to know who's going to win in your constituency? Try my UK

Aligning satellite solar panels using the sun

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Lelievre
In a recent edition of New Scientist, there is an headline which says that sundial principles are being applied to satellites. In seems that for the new generation of micro-satellites designers want to avoid having lots of heavy on-board batteries, and so will rely on small solar panels to provid

Re: Solar Noon & Equation of Time Calculator

2001-05-01 Thread Steve Lelievre
Gianni wrote: > As in almost all Web sites, also you take as positive the Longitudes for > places West of Greenwich. > Despite the opinion of the known astronomer J. Meeus, with which also Davis > agrees in his Sundial Glossary, even if a secular tradition justifies this > definition, it is NO

Re: ??? - OFF TOPIC

2001-05-07 Thread Steve Lelievre
This is off-topic, but why are they called Arabic numerals? Presumably because the system of positional significance is Arabic in origin? Also, real Arabic digits look nothing like the digits in the West (see attached for 0 to 9, Arabic style). Why and when did the differences arise? Steve ---

Cut-out sundial project

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Lelievre
A friend at the Nova Scotia Astronomy Society produced a do-it-yourself cardboard sundial template for their 2000 annual weekend gathering. Several hundred were distributed to attendees and it was later published in a newsletter of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. The idea was popular, a

Self-southing portable dials

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Lelievre
There's something I don't understand about a compound portable dials. As I understand it, a conventional horizontal dial can share its mounting plate with an analemmic dial to form a self-southing dial. The user simply turns the whole contraption until both dials read the same time. In this posit

Finding south

2001-07-30 Thread Steve Lelievre
Rohr mentioned an itinerant sundial maker in Austria, who roamed from village to village making vertical sundials for inns and church walls. I've been trying to imaging how would this person, or others in the same trade, have gone about their business. The construction part could have been fairl

Finding south

2001-08-03 Thread Steve Lelievre
Thanks for the various replies to my recent postings on self-southing dials and also on the finding south when setting up a vertical dial. Apologies for the delay in responding. Regarding the posting about an itinerant C17th dialmaker, the consensus seems to be that he would find south by the met

My calandar project

2001-08-07 Thread Steve Lelievre
To all those who expressed interest in my sundial calendar project of a few months ago, I have to inform you that I've decided not to go ahead with it. It has turned out to be too difficult for me to gather enough material to complete the project in the way I had envisaged. Thanks to everyone wh

Sundial at Montegufoni, Tuscany

2001-08-13 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi, A friend has sent me a couple of pictures of a sundial at Montegufoni in Tuscany, and has asked me how it works. I can't figure it out fully. On the face of it, we seem to have a fairly ordinary vertical decliner using a nodus, but we don't understand the hour numbering. They don't seem to b

Re: canonical hours

2001-11-21 Thread Steve Lelievre
From: "Alain MORY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hello, > > About canonical hours, I read that they were called so, while the monks > had to sing their prayers in "canon". Did anybody read this ? More > informations are better than only one. Hi, I looked on the Web for other sources of information to s

Re: calender

2001-12-05 Thread Steve Lelievre
If my memory is of any avail, week days repeat at regular intervals of 18 years. Maybe I am wrong. Anyway, it is easy to check if you have a perpetual calendar at hand. It should be 28 years (for 7 days in a week x 4 years between leaps) Specifically, there are 52 weeks plus 1 day in a year,

Interval timers

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Lelievre
With the recent talk of interval timers, I have to mention my swimming trip timer. My wife and I like to leave our watches at home when we go to the lake in the summer. We want to get home at the time promised to those left behind, but neither of us is good at sensing the passage of time. There i

Re: Ceiling Sundial

2002-01-04 Thread Steve Lelievre
I agree, John. At one solstice the EoT is about +2 minutes, and at the other it is about -2 minutes so there would be only a slight discrepancy. Too small to worry about, especially as this is a junior school project and Judith is trying to avoid too much complicated explanation. I like her appr

Re: Ceiling Sundials: Mirror Placement

2002-01-06 Thread Steve Lelievre
John Carmichael suggested floating the mirror in mercury to level it, and then Dave Bell pointed out that the clean surface of the mercury could be the mirror. Since mercury is a bit of a problem to work with, could a dish of water serve instead? In John's case, he just needs the mirror to be abl

Re: Ceiling Sundials: Mirror Placement

2002-01-07 Thread Steve Lelievre
John, Isn't the problem down there in Tuscon that the water would evaporate before any algae has a chance to grow? As Gino pointed out, if one creates a dial by calculation, there may be a problem transferring it to a room by measuring off, because walls and ceilings aren't plumb true or may be

Re: Emergency Sundial

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Lelievre
> Edley, Steve, Andrew, et al, > > Approximate 'trig.' from memory is all very well, but > why not simple geometry of equality and bisection? > Because nobody ever pointed it out to me before !! > With a string, twig, or weed-stem part as arbitrary > unit-length b, swing a circular arc. Cut suc

Acadian domestic sundials

2002-01-10 Thread Steve Lelievre
I'm doing some research relating to Acadian material culture, and came across a brief mention of domestic sundials. The reference is originally from "Chéticamp, histoire et traditions acadiennes" (CHIASSON, Fr. Anselme, 1961, Moncton). There is a passage describing the construction, layout and fur

Re: Acadian domestic sundials

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Lelievre
Edley mentioned hearsay of a window dial, thus: "[The source] said they carved out deep narrow notches which, when the sun fully filled the notch, it was that particular time". That's sounds very much like a shadow-plane dial, but reversed to use illumination rather than shadow as the indicator

Re: Re: Acadian domestic sundials

2002-01-18 Thread Steve Lelievre
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question about the possible nature of Acadian sundials - once again shadow planes dials have proven themselves to be ratehr interesting. The second part of the question remains open - if you know of locales where time marks or sundials were routinely added to

Anyone doing consultancy (Michigan, USA)?

2002-04-23 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi, I have been contacted by a company of landscape architects who are contemplating a large dial for a current project. I advised them to consider using a sundial design consultant, since they don't have experience in the art. I volunteered to help them find contact details for consultants, so i

Message archive

2002-06-28 Thread Steve Lelievre
I don't know how to find old messages for this list. I used to look at an archive on Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sundial/messages/), but the last message there is from 2001/07/11. Where else can I look? Thanks in advance, Steve -

Re: Amazing!

2002-09-06 Thread Steve Lelievre
- Original Message - From: "Mr. D. Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . > If anyone wants to visit one of our layouts in a public location, and then > 'reverse engineer' it - I am perfectly happy for them to do so. Oooh, there's nothing like a challenge! Unfortunately, in spite of their apparent

Postscript to Re: Amazing!

2002-09-06 Thread Steve Lelievre
Darn, I forgot something. I was saying that I suspect Douglas Hunt doesn't bother to deal with the "October" problem - but one way to do it would be to calculate the position of Oct 1 and Oct 31 twice over (for each of the two dial sizes) then split the difference. I think that would reduce the m

Amazing etc.

2002-09-06 Thread Steve Lelievre
Since my PS has arrived back in my mail box, but my original posting has not, I assume the original is lost in the ether. Apologies if this turns out to be a duplicate. Steve - Original Message - Mr. D. Hunt wrote . > If anyone wants to visit one of our layouts in a public location,

Re: Anti-sundial

2002-09-09 Thread Steve Lelievre
Here's another answer which doesn't answer your specific question - remember the old Scout trick: Hold your watch level, and turn until the the hour hand points in the direction of the sun. Mentally divide the angle between the hour hand and 12. That's an approximate NS line. It's each to

Re: 3-D gnomon for Polar Dial

2002-12-16 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi, I haven't seen any reply to the John Close / Mac question. Did I miss something? What's the verdict? For my part, I can see that it would be possible to construct a 2D shape (approximately oval), which when set in equatorial plane, would cast a shadow giving a certain EoT adjustment - you wo

Re: 3-D gnomon for Polar Dial

2002-12-16 Thread Steve Lelievre
But wait a minute ...as soon as I'd sent my last message, I saw a problem with it. The plane of the sun's orbit doesn't really change with declination, so my way out of the problem of varying declination doesn't work - so I don't have a solution after all! Steve -

Re: corrupt instruments

2002-12-29 Thread Steve Lelievre
Sara wrote (snipped)... > One reader took me to task for my use of the word "corrupt" and perhaps > others were equally puzzled. Well, I for one had no problem seeing it as corrupt (modern). But if we don't like corrupt, how about fraudulent? The site says the dial is "...an authentic replica

Re: On cookies and English version of UbiSol

2003-04-26 Thread Steve Lelievre
Anselmo Perez Serrada wrote (in reply to John Hall) > I thought it'd be unpolite to introduce > cookies in some other people's computers. You know this is a > controverted question! If you're reluctant to use cookies, why not have a URL that can include lat and lon? Users could (optionally) crea

Sundial web pages and controlled vocabulary

2003-01-13 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi dialists, This is a question particularly for those of you who have web sites. Would be willing to willing to include some predefined keywords in your sundial-related web pages, in order to make it easier for the rest of us to locate sundial related web pages using search engines? My problem

Re: Sundial web pages and controlled vocabulary

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
I think the sundial situation is different to Bill's situation. He deliberately introduced a spelling error in an attempt to create a unique keyword which would be all his own, and was confounded when the search engines 'helpfully' started to correct close matches. I'm just asking for pages to inc

Re: Sundials at Pole

2003-06-20 Thread Steve Lelievre
Gianni wrote: > For a hypothetical inhabitant of the Pole (that would have to be extremely > thin and threadlike) it doesn't exist any astronomical phenomenon that can > be used to mark the beginning of the day or the instant from which to start > a whatever system of hours. There isn't? There is

Re: Sundials at Pole

2003-06-21 Thread Steve Lelievre
Chris wrote: there is a point at the pole at which the height of the sun does not vary during the day... Ah. I looked at my globe again and I see where my visualization was wrong. My revised thinking is that actually the sun's height does vary during every day due to declination. During th

Stonehenge Aotearoa

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
Stonehenge Aotearoa is a latterday henge in New Zealand, just opened to the public. It isn't quite a sundial, but it has an analemma (see pic half way down web page), solstice markers and equinox markers, and stuff to do with polynesian star navigation. http://www.astronomynz.org.nz/stonehenge/s

Azimuth to Hour Angle code wanted

2005-03-27 Thread Steve Lelievre
Thanks, Steve Steve Lelievre Halifax, NS Canada -

Re: Azimuth to Hour Angle code wanted

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Lelievre
titudes, which are seldom a factor with sundials. Best regards, Jim From: Steve Lelievre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2005/03/27 Sun PM 03:29:54 EST To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: Azimuth to Hour Angle code wanted Hi, I'm looking for some BASIC code (or, second-best, C code) that

Re: Get Map From Coordinates?

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Lelievre
John,   If it's in North America, you can use Google Maps.   Go to http://maps.google.com   Type in the location into the search box, using a format like "44.0n 63.615153w". When the map comes up, zoom in or out until you see the town name.   There's a cool satellite view facility - look

Re: Get Map From Coordinates?

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Lelievre
Oh, and Google maps takes this format too:   44 40 00n 63 36 55w   Steve

Re: Sundial Motif to Be Featured on New Canadian $10 Coin

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Lelievre
Richard Langley wrote: A Canadian $10 silver coin to be launched today celebrating the Fortress of Louisbourg includes sundial numerals along its circumference alluding to the sundial that was found during an archaeological dig at the historic sight. You can see a photo of the face of the ex

Re: BBC iPlayer - Antiques Roadshow.

2012-10-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
On 15/10/2012 10:48 AM, brick...@62bricks.com wrote: Online content that is blocked for certain regions can be viewed using a proxy service. There is a simple program called Tunnelbear, available at http://tunnelbear.com , that will allow you to view content that is restricted to the UK. You ju

Re: Works of Tadeusz Przypkowski wanted

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Lelievre
On 18/03/2013 6:30 PM, Darek Oczki wrote: Dear Friends I am looking for two articles by Tadeusz Przypkowski: 1. The gnomonics of Nicolas Copernicus and of G J Rheticus, Actes du VI-e Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences, Pages 400-409. Florence 1956. 2. Gnomonics of John Hevelius, Act

Re: sundial spotting

2013-06-09 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi all, What, if any, is the significance of the recumbant crescent in this dial? Wikipedia describes crescents in art and symbolism, but its description relates mostly to the crescent as a symbol of Islam and in Christianity (Roman Catholic) as a symbol for Mary. Is there any other or more

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-06 Thread Steve Lelievre
On 06/07/2013 8:38 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote: It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the application used to render them. There are a block of unicode characters called "Combining Diacritica

Request for citation help

2013-10-15 Thread Steve Lelievre
Bishop Olaf reported that the people in some part of northern Scandinavia use staffs inscribed with markings which measured the placement of the sun and stars and thus could be used to track the hours as well as the seasons; but a staff is not a disk. Thanks for any leads you can of

Re: Request for citation help

2013-10-18 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi Peter, Thanks. Yes, I'd seen that article but I'm not convinced by the its thesis - that the object's main purpose is for finding latitude. They're saying that the much-discussed curved line can trace a nodus' shadow by use of a secondary gnomon placed off-centre. For me this does not ring

A world map of the discrepancy between civil and solar time.

2014-03-07 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hello everyone, Some fellow has coloured a world map to show the difference between the time zones and local solar time worldwide. See http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/ Click the small map on the this blog to see the map in full s

Re: Cambridge News article on Human Sundial unveiling

2014-05-09 Thread Steve Lelievre
On 09/05/2014 5:08 PM, Sunclocks North America wrote: Also, I was wondering if anybody could tell me what are the typical requirements for people to be allowed to use random copyrighted images from the internet, and what my rights and possible recourses are in such cases of the unauthorized use

Re: Cambridge News article on Human Sundial unveiling

2014-05-10 Thread Steve Lelievre
.sunclocks.net> On May 9, 2014, at 18:15, Steve Lelievre <mailto:steve.lelievre.can...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 09/05/2014 5:08 PM, Sunclocks North America wrote: Also, I was wondering if anybody could tell me what are the typical requirements for people to be allowed to use random

Altitude dials as compasses

2014-05-10 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hello, everyone, A recent NASS Compendium included an article on the use of a Shepherd's Dial as a compass. The author reported orientation errors in field use of up to 25 degrees in the hour either side of noon but 5 degrees or less in other parts of the day. This is consistent with my findin

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