You are one of the very few lucky guys who can say that gnomonists and navigators look the same way ;-)
I hope for you that this might also reflect in the software. A pity that most of the software makers hardly think about you down unders, perhaps they should first visit you?
Thibaud
At 01:32 27-09-2003, you wrote:
Fred and Thibaud
As one of those people who live in the southern hemisphere the convention of looking south does not work real well up here ;-))
When teaching students of architecture solar geometry I used to suggest the convention of 'Equator facing' to look toward the sun - this deals with both hemispheres. Now that just leaves the people on the Equator having to look both ways and up ;-))
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 10:35 PM, Fred Sawyer wrote:
Simply because dialists tend to look south towards the sun - with hour angle and azimuth calculated from the sun's meridian position. At this point we don't have any definite plans for a new version of the program. If we do an update,
Best regards
John Hall
41.5 South 147.1 East
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