Re: A new sundial - type from Bremen!

[fer j. de vries]

Dear Reinhold,   Thank you for your link to the new sundial at the site of Planetarium Bremen. It's a beautiful sundial and I enjoy it very much.   But.... There is a but.   The dial is called an "analemmatic equarorial sundial with light-pointer". No problems with "equarorial sundial with light-pointer" but with the word "analemmatic" in this sentence.   An analemmatic sundial is a quit different type. Usual it is an horizontal dial with vertical gnomon on a scale of date and hourpoints on an ellips.   I understand the "error" because in English the word analemma is also used for the EoT curve.   So my advice is not to use the word "analemmatic" in the description of this dial.   Thanks for sharing this nice sundial with us.   Best wishes, Fer.     Fer J. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iae.nl/users/ferdv/ Eindhoven, Netherlands lat.  51:30 N      long.  5:30 E ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 6:39 PM Subject: A new sundial - type from Bremen! Dear friends, may I invite you to have a look at a probably new type of sundial, an analemmatic equatorial sundial with light-pointer, built by my friend Dietrich Ahlers. His HALBE - ACHT - sundial can be seen at the Homepage of Olbers-Planetarium Bremen as sundial of the month March. Either you start at: http://www.hs-bremen.de/planetarium and choose bottom right <Sonnenuhr des Monats> (sundial of the month) or go directly to: http://planetarium.hs-bremen.de/planetarium/astroinfo/sonnenuhren/ahlers/analem.htm Regards Reinhold Kriegler * ** *** **** ***** ****** ******* Reinhold R. Kriegler Lat: 53° 06' 53'' N    Long: 8° 53' 54" E