Does anybody there knows of any site
where I can get information about moonrise
and similar?
- fernando
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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
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
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
> 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
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| Jim Cobb | 540 Ar
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
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,
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