Hello, Willy!
I'd be glad to see the drawings.
Could you tell us where exactly the building is being built, so that we can go
and
see, and maybe also give some info about who the owners are and how did you
convince them to include a sundial on their building?
Thanks already and all the best.
Thierry
50.5 N 4.3 E
Willy Leenders wrote:
>
> Fer,
>
> Only the first design drawings of the sundial are available.
> The building is in construction and reaches on this moment the ground floor
> level.
> I can send on demand 3 drawings in jpeg-format (scanned of an Excell worksheet
> graphic).
> Drawing 1: the sundial for a vertical wall
> Drawing 2: the sundial for the cylindric wall, projection on a vertical plane
> Drawing 3: the sundial for the cylindric wall, unrolled in a plane
> Drawing 3 includes the coordinates for the intersections of the hour lines and
> the date lines (zodiac sign periodes) for use at the construction.
> The architects choose for hourlines corresponding solar time with correction
> to
> standard time only for the longitude and date lines only for solstices and
> equinoxes.
> The drawings have the same scale and correspond to the 3 phases ('fase' in
> Dutch) of the calculation.
>
> Orientation of the wall: 20,233 degree west of south
> Heigth of the sundial: between 15 m and 18 m.
> Radius of the cylinder: 4630 mm
> Arrow of the arc: 1363 mm
> Latitude: 50,865 north
> The sundial is a nodal sundial. The node is situated in the middle of the cord
> of the arc.
>
> Who checks the calculations?
>
> Willy Leenders
> Hasselt, Flanders, Belgium
>
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