Tom,

With regard to your posting:

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>comfortable arm-chair. If an analemmatic dial is planned for a vertical
declining wall at 55° North, and the latitude on the earth's surface where
this plane would be horizontal to the surface is 35° South, these two
defining planes would be parallel to each other. Therefore, as the gnomon's
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Not true if the vertical wall declines.  Declination will bring the
southern latitude closer to the equator - until it equals the equator when
the declination is 90 degrees.

Fred Sawyer

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