Painted Wall Sundials Webpage

2006-10-30 Thread John Carmichael
Subject: New Webpage of Painted Wall Sundials at http://www.advanceassociates.com/WallDial/PWS_Images.html   Hello All:   Dave Bell and I have posted a new webpage that is an Image Archive of the world’s most beautiful Painted Wall Sundials (PWS).  All of them were painted directly onto

Re: date scale

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Lusby Taylor
Hi Tracy, I've attached a photo of the date scale I did for an analemmatic sundial at a swimming pool. The footprints are intended to hint that you should stand on the centreline. The date scale is a circle. Find the date on the circle, mentally follow the east-west line to the inner arc, the

Request

2006-10-30 Thread tony moss
Fellow Shadow Watchers, Does anyone have a jpeg of the small stainless steel polar dial seen at Royal Holloway College during the BSS Conference? It had 45° 'wings' to catch the early and late shadows and a solid black 'slate' gnomon. On both occasions we passed it I had

Re: date scale

2006-10-30 Thread fer de vries
Hello Tracy,   For an usual analemmatic dial an analemma around the central scale of date is not suitable for correcting the time with the value for equation of time if it isn't noon. For other times the analemma is just a table to read the value of the EoT. For such a reason you may draw the