[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Could someone point me at a design for an analemmic dial design that > uses a stationary gnomon that does not have to be positioned during > the year. I have both an elliptic and a Lambert dial, but I am too > lazy to move the gnomon to the correct date whenever I want the time. > > I am guessing that the gnomon would have to be figured to an > analemmic shape or half-analemmic shape that is flipped twice a year. > > I would greatly appreciate your help. > > Regards, > > Bill Price > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Bill, Such an analemmatic sundial is described in the bulletin of the British Sundial Society, No. 98.1, page 26. Instead of moving the gnomon the ellipse may be moved, according to the date. Now draw a number of the ellipses around the stationary gnomon and your problem is solved. Other solutions are possible as is shown in the article. Fer de Vries. Netherland.
