Re: sundial on a tower

2000-04-27 Thread Alain MORY
Hello Fer, It's very nice to tou, giving me such a speedy response ! The latitude is 47°29'16 N and the longitude is 7°14'37E. It is located in south Alsace, not so far from you. My problem with you attached file is that it couln't be opened by my Navigator. What kind of *.gif is it ? If

Re: sundial on a tower

2000-04-27 Thread fer j. de vries
Hello Alain, At what latitude and longitude the tower is? In this picture you see the pattern for an east facing vertical dial at latitude 52 degrees for local sun time, on a vertical cylinder. The diameter is 435 cm, the gnomon is 25 cm. What is about the dimension of the height and width of

The Sundial of Human Involvement?

2000-04-27 Thread Frans W. MAES
Hi fellow dialists, Browsing the web for analemmatic sundials, I hit upon three such dials which call themselves The Sundial of Human Involvement: At the Carter Observatory, near Wellington, New Zealand: colorparam,8000,/paramhttp://members.tripod.com/~apd2/carter.htm