On Tue, September 2, 2008 4:16 pm, Rodney Heil wrote: > It would be relatively straightforward to have a small window in the roof on > the center of the south side, so that a sunbeam coming through it at solar noon strikes the chimney (or stove pipe). Then place markings on the chimney to indicate the date. > > A step beyond this would be to fashion the chimney, say out of stone for example, in the shape of an analemma, so that you can translate solar noon into mean time. > > Other, more drastic, ideas come to mind, but they depend on how much you are > willing to depart from a typical house design.
A small window at the top, with tiles set into the floor indicating the time and date. You could do tiles for various anniversaries - wedding, birth, etc, although if you ever got divorced you'd have to retile the house. :-/ --Yan > > v/r > Rodney Heil > ~35 N ~117 W > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lloyd Tackitt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Good point! >> >> 31*48'06.18" N 97*18'30.15" W >> 431' ASL >> >> No restrictions other than trees East and West - lots of trees, but fairly >> open to the South and North. >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Chris Lusby Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Lloyd Tackitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 4:23:23 PM >> Subject: Re: Ideas Sought >> >> Hello Lloyd, >> I'm sure there are many on this mailing list who will offer ideas for your >> exciting project. Orienting the walls due north/south etc would probably make the sundial design easiest. 22.5 degrees to that would, perhaps, be more interesting. Can you please help us by telling us the latitude of the >> house. The sundial geometry is greatly affected by latitude, as I'm sure you >> can appreciate. >> Also, do you have an unobstructed view of the sky in the directions in which the sun rises and sets, or are there hills / buildings / whatever in >> the way? >> >> Best wishes >> >> Chris Lusby Taylor >> 51.4N 1.3W >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Lloyd Tackitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:53 PM >> *Subject:* Ideas Sought >> >> Hello! >> >> I am in the early planning stages of building an Octagon house. The house >> will have a central fireplace. I have no building restrcitions and can orient the house any way I choose - I do have a great river view directly to >> the South that will be the main focus of the house. >> >> In designing this house it occurred to me that it would be interesting to >> align the house with the 8 points of the compass, and then it occurred to me >> that there are many things that I could do with this, if I but had the knowledge. Such as, design the house as a live in sunddial, or astronomical >> calendar with shadow line(s) falling on solstices marked on the central fireplace, equinoxes, eclipses, what have you. >> >> However, I am ignorant on the subjects above and am seeking ideas to incorporate into the design. I am about a year from starting >> construction, >> so now is the time to plan this out. >> >> Any and all suggestions are welcomed! >> >> Thank you >> >> Lloyd >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >> >> > > > !DSPAM:48bdc96c79201804284693! > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > > !DSPAM:48bdc96c79201804284693! > -- o__ ,>/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_) As long as nobody gets hurt, a decent explosion livens up any experiment. -- o__ ,>/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_) As long as nobody gets hurt, a decent explosion livens up any experiment. --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
