Re: High Noon

2002-06-27 Thread Eichholz
Helllo Mac,   some answers were given to you. My answer is "High noon" is correlated with the temporal hour "None" used by the monks. But as the Benedict rules demanded to have no food before this time it changed  more and more foward. The same thing happened with "vesper". Best wishes   Klau

Equatorial monument in Brazil

2002-06-27 Thread J.Tallman
Hello All,   I recently saw a show on the Travel Channel (cable tv) which may be of interest to those who have access to it.   The show was called "Voyager's Adventures" with Geraldo Rivera, and this particular installment chronicled an expedition up the Amazon River in Brazil.  When they got

Style Shift Movie

2002-06-27 Thread John Carmichael
Hi all: Yesterday, I saw a VCR video tape that that a volunteer took of us marking the Kitt Peak sundial. The best part of the movie was of the penumbra rapidly moving along the projection screen just before, during and after the morning style shift when the bottom style shifts to the east style

Style Shift Movie

2002-06-27 Thread Patrick Powers
Message text written by INTERNET:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de >I also want to edit out the bad parts. I'd really like to include my little style shift movie in my PowerPoint presentation for the NASS conference, but I'm not sure how to do it. (Somebody told me that there are files called mpegs, like

Re: Equatorial monument in Brazil

2002-06-27 Thread DrArthurCarlson
Hold still, I think I see a nit! The rate of change of the declination at the equinoxes is 24 arc-minutes per day, approximately equal to the size of the image of the solar disk, so if the spot is perfectly centered on the line at dawn, by dusk it should be nearly off one side.  Actually, this i

Re: Equatorial monument in Brazil

2002-06-27 Thread J.Tallman
Hello Art,   "The rate of change of the declination at the equinoxes is 24 arc-minutes per day, approximately equal to the size of the image of the solar disk, so if the spot is perfectly centered on the line at dawn, by dusk it should be nearly off one side.  Actually, this is cool, because

AW: Equatorial monument in Brazil

2002-06-27 Thread Josef Pastor
Hello Dialists, hello Jim,   Have a look at http://www.macapa-ap.com.br/ and go to Fotos da Cidade. There you will see the Monumento do Marco Zero. Is it that, what you are speaking of ?   Yours Josef PastorE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-Von: [EMAIL PROT

Kitt Peak dial

2002-06-27 Thread Mac Oglesby
John, I've seen your juxtaposition of the computed and observed hour points at the Kitt Peak demonstration sundial. Congratulations on achieving such excellent results. After weeks of preparation followed by days spent on site, it must be extremely gratifying to you and the others involved t