There are astronomy programs like Stellarium and smartphone apps that give the azimuth of the sun at a given time. That and a protractor will give you true north.
> I would also love to see sundials in schools. Not just an analemmatic > dials > but the multi dial as well. > > This is why I am trying to find an easy way to find north. > > I would like to be able to use a horizontal dial and rotate it until it > reads the true time. Obviously this won't work with a standard horizontal > dial because we are not all on the same longitude. The other reason is the > equation of time. > > However, I believe it would work if there was a website that calculate > setting your watch to LAT instead of LMT. This website would have to take > in account the longitude as well as the day of the year it is. You then > rotate the sundial until it is the correct time on your watch. > > > > Cheers > Donald Christensen > 0423 102 090 > www.sundialsforlearning.com > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
