Daniel Lee Wenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On my globe the significance of the analemma is apparent. Each analemma
represents the geographical
position of the sun at mean time 6, 7, 8, 9, etc. for each day of the year.
In fact the geographical
postions of the sun at those mean time hours
Dear Fellow Dialists
I promised photos of my newest sundial and they are now on my web site. A
set of pictures is at
http://www.wengersundial.com/dialPicture.html
The photo at
http://www.wengersundial.com/dial1.html
shows the detail of the analemma and the scribed features of the dial.
This
Since one major insurmountable objection to the Achelis-type
World Calendar, especially to Jews and other religious groups to whom the
preservation of the 7-day week is important, has anyone considered a
calendar of 364 days, divided just as in the World Calendar, but instead
of a
Hello,
It is true that the Analemma is a graph of the EoT vs. Dec but I would
recommend that EoT values that are the computed points of an Analemma be
based on a four year average if one is, as I am guessing, correlating
the imaged solar position along the Analemma to an exact date. One
Hello Again,
My mistake below: I should have said the zero(s) of obliquity at the
Equinoxes...
Luke
Luke Coletti wrote:
it
is the phase relation between the two events (i.e., the maximum of
eccentricity at Perihelion and the min(s) of obliquity at the Equinoxes)
that drive the
Hi David, Richard et. al.
None of us is picky, we are discussing things.
1. David, you wrote
Flight would work quite well without viscosity. The lift generated by
aircraft wings is due to a pressure difference above and below the wing,
and this is created by the shape of the wing. Whilst
