By my reading, the dial in the photo indicates just barely after local noon. The helix is aligned with the Earth's axis, and it is in the northern hemisphere, so North is to the left. The Sun is shining on the band so that the shadowed portion looks just slightly shorter than the lighted portion (to me). By the way the band twists, as the Sun moves farther West - "out of" the photo - it will illuminate more of the upper section of the band. The band makes a 180 degree twist over the central half of its length. The upper edge shadows the "face" adjacent to it, for every part where the Sun's plane is East of the plane of the tiny section in question, and leaves it in light, for all parts where it is West of the section. As the Sun moves, the line of demarcation between light and shadow moves with it...
Dave On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, G?nther Faltlhansl wrote: > Dear Co-Diallists, > Thank you for the immediate and overwhelming response to my request. I > had had only a small hope to get any reaction at all. There seems to be > an enormous amount of dialling info stored in this list. > I have at once admired the picture of Helix Helios at the Egeskov site. > It seems to work, but what time does it indicate. Tom's idea of > indenting the edges to take care of the EQT is tempting, but I can not > even figure out the principle. > I have thumbed through my ROHR again now, but could not detect this > type of dial. What type of dial would one call it anyway? > Thanks again for your contributions. > > G?nther Faltlhansl > 48?09' N > 16?52' E >
