As far as I know this name just applies to the specially designed sundials
used in some beaches and swimming pools in Algarve and Madeira island to advise
the most red hours... (it was a topic of discussion some time ago too)
The portuguese name is, as Fernando pointed relogio de sol (with accute
Peter Mayer wrote:
Dear Shadow Watchers,
On Friday the 18th, Fernando replied:
Thibaud Taudin-Chabot wrote:
Perhaps a device lost people
could use to send signals to airplanes saying indicating they
need help. This kind of usage would make sense to me.
I wonder if it is a
I thought this millennium's last summer solstice would be in December,
2000, south of the equator. Let's not forget our friends in oz,
Brazil, and other southern locales...
Jon, I'd like a copy too, if I may.
Jim
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For a marketing boost, label your sundials as Y2K compliant. Hundreds
of
I have to agree with John Pickard on this one it is our Winter Solstice.
Globes and maps are all made the wrong way round. Even the clocks move in a
strange way ;-) If this hemisphere had got in on the act first we would have
properly had the clocks running anti clockwise ;-)
I have just
Dear PsychoKidd and SolarGuru,
Sorry to disappoint both of you, but mid summer actually occurs in
December! And the longest day of the year is also in that month.
John
Dr John Pickard
Senior Lecturer, Environmental Planning
Graduate School of the Environment
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
Hello,
Although the times of the latest sunset and as well the earliest
sunrise do not occur on the Summer Solstice, there is variability in
their respective dates which depends on latitude. At the equator, where
the rate at which the length of the day increases and decreases is much
Just though I would throw a global wrench in all of your works...
The longest solar day is on or about September 15th (my birthday),
when the day is 24 hours and 21.5 seconds long! The shortest solar day
is December 25, at 24 hours minus 30 seconds.
Enjoy today anyway!
Pete S.
John Pickard
'mid-summer' actually occurs on May 1st, June 21st is usually refered to as
the first day of summer.
In a message dated 6/21/99 3:41:58 AM !!!First Boot!!!, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
To all my admirers, happy summer solstice, 19:49 UT, 21 June. For those in
the northern hemisphere, this is
OH you Aussies with your stupid upside down globes. I still disagree
Midsummer occurs on May 1st (it is an ancient European holiday), though the
local first day of summer does indeed depend on latitude.
In a message dated 6/21/99 5:01:48 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To all my admirers, happy summer solstice, 19:49 UT, 21 June. For those in
the northern hemisphere, this is as good as it gets, the longest day, the
shortest night of the year. I hope you enjoy this mid-summer night with an
appropriate pagan celebration. I am ;-)
Although this is the
Hi Luke,
You are quite right about the latitude dependence. Since that fateful day,
27 Oct 312 when I lost my position, I have been dependent on others for
such data. My reference for the original quotation is the June 1999 Sky and
telescope calendar. The Dialists' Companion does give the
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