Help please. Under circumstances that I will not bore you with, Tony Moss and I had dinner this week with Dr Joe P.Allen, (the American astronaut) and that well known English eccentric and astronomer Sir Patrick Moore. Naturally, our main topic of conversation was sundials, and there was some talk of the Mars sundial. We also talked about this sundial mailing list, and what a wealth of knowledge is contained in it.
Patrick Moore then asked if we could design a sundial, to be placed on the moon at "Tranquility Base" - Joe Allen to be responsible for getting it there!! Should a successful dial be designed, he might feature it on his "The Sky at Night" television programme. Tony has offered to make it. So, we have a challenge I regret that I don't know much about the Moon. I guess with a day of 27 days or so, we won't be able to use Earth time. Tony has suggested a "Luna", subdivided, naturally, into "tics". All help and any suggestions for a design would be greatly appreciated. Mike Shaw Wirral, UK 53' 22" N 03" 02" W
