Make the date scale very narrow, use initial letters only for the months, and have an instruction plate that says "stand on the centre line at today's date" etc. However, Joe public will still stand to one side! David Brown Somerset, UK
Willy Leenders > The picture Frank sent shows again that visitors of a analemmatic sundial > stand on the date indicator instead of on the centerline according to the > date. > > Who finds an effective way to prevent this? > > Willy Leenders > Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) > > Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) > with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch): > http://www.wijzerweb.be > > > > > > > > Op 10-nov-2012, om 17:07 heeft Frank King het volgende geschreven: > >> Dear Jackie, >> >> You ask... >> >>> ...why it is round, not oval which one >>> would expect? >> >> It's the camera angle. Try looking at >> it from this direction: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/coughsplutter/7386827686/in/photostream/ >> >> If you want a round analemmatic sundial >> you have to go to Naples: >> >> http://www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?sf=IT2119%1 >> >> All the best >> >> Frank >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
