Any moon data site?

2000-01-26 Thread Fernando Cabral
Does anybody there knows of any site where I can get information about moonrise and similar? - fernando -- Fernando Cabral Padrao iX Sistemas Abertos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.com.br Fone Direto: +55 61 329-0206mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

R: Dali and Azimuthal Dials - to Dave Bell & Dan Wenger

2000-01-26 Thread Gianni Ferrari
Hi Dave, your observation is correct : In the drawig the last part at left is missing. In the program that draws the Monofilars Sundials there is a little error: the date lines should be traced from the date 1/1, to the date... 13/1, that is again to the date 1/1 passing through 12/1. The prog

Kremsmunster - a CD with many photos

2000-01-26 Thread Gianni Ferrari
In September 1999 during a journey in Austria, we have arrived, by chance, in the small city of Kremsmünster, near Linz, where a beautiful Benedictine Abbey, built in 1700,.is found. Connected to the Abbey there is an astronomic tower that was originally used as an observatory for astronomical r

Re: Kremsmunster - a CD with many photos

2000-01-26 Thread G�nther Faltlhansl
Hello Gianni, Speaking of Kremsmünster it might be of interest to you that in the Circular Nr.18 of the Sundial Working Group of the Austrian Astronomical Society an article was published by Ms. Ilse Fabian on the astronomic tower of this abbey. Whoever would be interested (it is in German!) migh

Re: Any moon data site?

2000-01-26 Thread Jim_Cobb
> Does anybody there knows of any site > where I can get information about moonrise > and similar? > > - fernando Try http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html Jim 40N45, 111W53 --- -- | Jim Cobb | 540 Ar

Swensen Sundial Web Cam is down.

2000-01-26 Thread John Shepherd
Some of you may have noticed the Swensen Sundial Web Cam at http://www.uwrf.edu/sundial/Webcam.html has been down longer than normal. The trouble is we've recently undergone a massive Network upgrade plus several major hacker attacks which are all handled by the same person. The server that worked

Swensen Sundial Web Cam is going again.

2000-01-26 Thread John Shepherd
Sod's Law or Murphy's Law is still in operation. As soon as I decided it was about time to say something about the web cam being down I am informed its back up! You can see its a nice sunny day at River Falls at http://www.uwrf.edu/sundial/Webcam.html even though its below 0 degrees F. Cheers,

Next JPEGs

2000-01-26 Thread Tony Moss
Fellow Shadow Watchers, Most of us are aware of the 'nail in a board' method of determining the declination of a wall (see Waugh p.91 for a picture) BUT, unless the nail is very precisely placed it can never give more than a crude approximation (certainly not with the nai