Dear list: I couldn't resist - it happens so rarely in December near
declination -23 deg! - Woody
http://sunny.astro.washington.edu
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Dear gnomonic world,
We are pleased to announce the public launch of our SundialCam website
http://sunny.astro.washington.edu
at which you can see a live image, updated once per minute (even at
night!), of the large wall dial on the Physics/Astronomy Building of
the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. It is the only such
active webcam in the world, and we know that some of you will want to
stare at it for hours on end (or at least bookmark it...). You can
monitor not only the time in Seattle, but also the weather - once in
a while we have been known to have some rain (although it's clear
right now and the there's a lunar eclipse underway!).
The website has many features including our first two
time-lapse movies, of the all-day shadow on the summer solstice and
on the autumn equinox. (We also link to many other sundial time-lapse
movies done by others in the past.) There are also details of the
webcam setup, the dial itself, sundials in general, etc.
We will be adding time-lapses over the coming months,
including eventually all-year-long analemmas. We will also shortly be
improving the present camera so as to have higher-resolution images
and more reliabilty. If we should be off-line when you check (it
happens once in a while), please check again after a day.
We look forward to feedback from the international gnomonic
community, as well as information on any links we may have missed to
other such efforts now or in the past.
Cheers, Woody Sullivan & Ian Smith
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Seattle Sundial Trail: http://www.sundials.co.uk/~seattle.htm
What you seek is but a shadow
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Prof. Woodruff T. Sullivan, III
Dept. of Astronomy & Astrobiology Program Box 351580
Univ. of Washington tel.
206-543-7773
Seattle, WA 98195 USA fax 206-685-0403
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