I'll take your word for it - I'm still dizzy!! - but it sounds right... Dave
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, David R. Gagnon wrote: > Hi Dave > > The gnomon for the Schmoyer dial is asymmetric East-to-West in the > same way that the analemma is. When the gnomon is inverted, East > and West are interchanged but they are on the equatorial crescent also. > Since the time scale is flipped along with the East-West flip of the > gnomon, the inverted gnomon should give the proper EOT correction. > > At 11:11 AM 10/14/99 -0700, you wrote: > >D'oh! I forgot about inverting the gnomon! > > > >I'm dizzy too, but I think it does need to be inverted. However, doesn't > >it also need to be reversed Winter/Summer as well? How similar are the two > >curves cast into the gnomon, Dave? I think they should ideally be slightly > >different, but did Schmoyer incorporate that detail? > > > >Dave Bell > >
