The Mars sundial

2004-01-04 Thread Robert Terwilliger
Title: Message Spirit had landed, and the first extraterrestrial sundial is on the surface of Mars.   See the NASS Links page:   http://sundials.org/links/   Bob Terwilliger NASS Webmaster

Re: Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread Dave Bell
I sketched out a vertical dial, figuring a mirror as the nodus on a pin gnomon perpendicular to the dial face, using Fer J. de Vries' ZW2000 software. I used my northern California coordinates. It's a *little* large, for a suburban home. A mirror 10 feet from the plane of the wall seems to require

Re: Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
It is not that difficult, mirror the neighbors wall in relation to the mirror, so it will be some imaginary wall in Tom's house. The mirror is the tip of the gnomon, or a little window whatever you like. The south facing dial on the mirrored neighbors wall has to be mirrored back: left and ri

RE: dialling in Andalusia

2004-01-04 Thread Roger Bailey
Hello Heiner, Go to http://inicia.es/de/RELOJANDALUSI/ This is a great website on sundials in Andalusia. Roger Bailey Walking Shadow Designs N 48.6 W 123.4 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of heiner thiessen Sent: January 4, 2004 9:34 AM To:

dialling in Andalusia

2004-01-04 Thread heiner thiessen
Dear all, I am going to Granada, Cordoba and Seville in Andalusia, Spain very shortly and wondered whether somebody might be able to point out a few dials or astrolabes in the area. Thanks: Heiner 51N/1W -

Re: Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread Dave Bell
I love it! If Tom can sell his neighbor on the esthetic upgrade to his house, it's a great solution. How does the geometry work out? Would the mirror need to be *very* high, say, over 2 stories itself? Closer, or farther than Tom's South wall? I guess the design trick would be to calculate a Sou

Re: Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread John Carmichael
Hi Tom:   Is a skylight hole in your roof possible?  This would eliminate most of your problems with mirrors.  You don't need a flat roof.  A skylight hole could be used for any of the interior dials I mentioned.     John L. Carmichael Jr.925 E. Foothills Dr.Tucson Arizona, USATel: 520-696-1

Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Powers
Message text written by INTERNET:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de >I think I can now properly formulate my question:  Is there a way to get the sun's rays down to my room so I can have them illuminate an ordinary sundial?  (Without demolishing my neighbor's house or spending a ton of money?)< Not perhaps

Re: Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
There is an other solution: Put a miiror high on your south facing wall which will reflect the sun on your neighboors North wall. Design a sundial for that North Facing wall of your neighboor. He will never look at it but you see it all the time. Thibaud At 07:36 04-01-2004, you wrote: I ha

Sundial inside a room, but room is inside a canyon!

2004-01-04 Thread Tom Egan
I have a nice, south-facing room.� The trouble is, my neighbor's two-story house is about 10 feet away, due south.� Consequently,� if I cut an aperture in my wall, the sun would find it only mid-summer.� The rest of the time, my neighbor's roof would block the sun.� Demolishing his second story