Re: R: "best" possible angle for insolation and visibility

1999-08-13 Thread Fernando Cabral
Hello Gianni Thank you for your message and image. Your suggestion is great. Unfortunately it will not apply to the case in point because of the place the dial is supposed to the placed: in the junction of two roads, in the open air, subject to a lot of dust. It has to be easy to be read by the

Qumran sundial (update)

1999-08-13 Thread R.H. van Gent
In response to my recent query on the Qumran sundial mr. Reinhold Kriegler from Bremen kindly sent me a copy of a leaflet which dr. Uwe Glessmer had passed around during a lecture on this sundial at the meeting of the Deutschen Sonnenuhrenfreunde at Ilmenau on May 14, 1999. This leaflet contains

GPS

1999-08-13 Thread David Higgon
Sorry to back-track to a long past thread, but read this in an RYA book on navigation: Accuracy and Selective Availability The inherent accuracy of Coarse Acquisition (CA) code GPS is about 20 metres ... But it is owned and operated by the American Department of Defence, who do not want potentia