Once I moved to Australia from California, It took me about 3 years before I would stop make embarrassing mistakes concerning left from right. At times, I felt I was 6 years old again!
I lived in California for 22 years The ocean is west The sun sets on the ocean We drove on the right When we face north, our back is to the equator In Brisbane The ocean is east The sun sets inland We drive on the left When we face north, we are also facing the equator I also had a fun time learning about sundials. 95% (or more) of the books and articles are for northern hemisphere dials. I had to try to convert this data to southern hemisphere before I even knew how a sundial works! I have changed the animation for the shadow to rotate the other direction. However, I'm still undecided of which one to use on my website and email footer http://content.screencast.com/users/dchristensen777/folders/Default/media/424ea0f6-012b-4d4f-ac4e-beb931f04403/GIRL_SHADOW%20northern%20dial.gif Cheers Donald 0423 102 090 www.sundialsforlearning.com On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Richard B. Langley <l...@unb.ca> wrote: > Some years ago, I bought what seemed to be a nicely constructed equatorial > sundial at a garden centre in Holland. I don't know about the display unit > but the one in the box I bought turned out to be for the southern > hemisphere when I got it home. Mounting the circular bow upside down made > it usable although it necessitates crooking one's head 180 degrees to read > it. ;-) > > -- Richard Langley > > > On 11-Jan-13, at 1:32 PM, Roger Bailey wrote: > > Yes, there is a world of difference. I was recently in New Zealand and it >> took some time to get my head around the difference for sundials. South is >> their reference pole and the numbers do go the other way around. It is >> interesting a northern designed vertical south facing sundial is identical >> to a southern horizontal dial for the co-latitude. I found a number of good >> sundials in New Zealand but didn't find any that exploited the above >> advantage. >> >> Thanks Rosaleen Robertson of the New Zealand Sundial Association ( >> www.sundials.org.nz) for your assistance. >> >> Regards, Roger Bailey >> @ 48.6° north again >> >> From: Willy Leenders >> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 2:38 AM >> To: Willy Leenders >> Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de >> Subject: Re: Analemmatic sundial >> >> >> >> My comment is valid only for the northern hemisphere >> >> >> Willy Leenders >> Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Op 11-jan-2013, om 11:20 heeft Willy Leenders het volgende geschreven: >> >> Donald, >>> >>> A nice idea. >>> >>> If you want to display the progress of the shadow from morning to >>> evening, the movement must be in clockwise and not the rverse as in the >>> animated image. >>> >>> 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 11-jan-2013, om 03:32 heeft Donald Christensen het volgende >>> geschreven: >>> >>> Hi all >>>> >>>> I just had a cartoonist work on the logo for my website. The idea is >>>> that I wanted to put it in the footer of my emails. I will eventually put >>>> it in the header of my website - or more accurately, customize the >>>> wordpress theme so that I can put an animated gif next to the header. >>>> >>>> I'll include a link in case the moving logo does not work on this forum >>>> >>>> content.screencast.com/users/**dchristensen777/folders/** >>>> Default/media/d641cee8-137c-**456d-afc1-334e75526254/logo<http://content.screencast.com/users/dchristensen777/folders/Default/media/d641cee8-137c-456d-afc1-334e75526254/logo>GIRL_SHADOW.gif >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Donald >>>> 0423 102 090 >>>> www.sundialsforlearning.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------**--------------------- >>>> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/**mailman/listinfo/sundial<https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial> >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------**--------------------- >>> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/**mailman/listinfo/sundial<https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial> >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/**mailman/listinfo/sundial<https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial> >> >> >> >> >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2013.0.2890 / Virus Database: 2637/6024 - Release Date: 01/10/13 >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/**mailman/listinfo/sundial<https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial> >> >> > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ----------------- > | Richard B. 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