Yes, Fritz, my answers were along this line of thought. Do look at Judy
Young's neat reply.
Thanks,
John
>
> Just imagining... I would say you could find out when
> it WAS, but it would be quite impossible the first try.
> When the shadow deviated to within about a week of
> when you guess it mig
In case it didn't come through before, here is Judy Young's clear answer,
for which I am grateful.
John Schilke
>
> Dear John and the List,
>
> Thanks for the question. You are the second person to ask in 2
> days how to determine the day of the solstice, given the slow change in
> the Sun's decl
Edley,
Ok, here is the reference I mentioned earlier: see _The Atkinson
Sundial at Indiana University_, Sky and Telescope Feb. 1979.
Regards,
Luke Coletti
Naturally, it is much faster as well since the install process takes a large amount of time (and as you suggest aol installs unless very carefully maneuvered can take over the normal internet functions).
Thank you, and a merry Holiday round of Solstice and Christmas to you! This
is essentially what I had thought, but being from Oregon, I have misgivings
about whether the sun would break through the rain. We now are almost tied
with our record for consecutive rainy days -- some 29, I believe!
Ag
Greetings!
It occurred to me today that I probably do not fully understand something
that would be of interest to the List. Granted the difficulty of
determining the equinox, using only a dial or a Stonehenge-like ring (mainly
because of the rapid change in solar declination), I thought abou
Dear Membership,
In some current sundial projects the ability to correct for
Longitude, Equation of Time and Daylight Savings Time had to be
incorporated. In some of these the idea of rotating the dial about
the gnomon axis would work but others were too cumbersome to even
contemplate doing
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
For the past few days I've been limited to a
laptop with a skeleton address book etc. for emails so apologies to
correspondents who have not had prompt reponses.
The reason is below.
Tony Moss
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