This is getting interesting! I now understand the mirror setup, dial face
design and function. So you would make design the sundial face to be an
analemmatic dial for the North Pole (even though it is not located at the North
Pole). It makes sense because we all know that an analemmatic sundi
Hi John et al,
I thought at first that John Lynes was making a joke, but you could actually do
this. If you have a large, fixed, plane mirror you can use the sunlight
reflected off it instead of the actual sun. By suitably angling the mirror you
can make the sun appear to rotate about any desire
Hello John L.
I’ve never heard of such a sundial and I can’t imagine how it would function.
I’m not sure I understand the setup and positioning of the mirror. Is the
mirror permanently fastened to the ground or is the mirror moveable? Does the
mirror reflect sunlight onto the sundial face
Dear Alison
One expedient, at least in theory, would be to fix a plane mirror,
suitably angled in plan to the main driveway and tilted to convert the
analemmatic sundial ellipse into a circle. The position of the human
gnomon would not vary with the season. The sundial would receive
reflect
Dear all,
rel. 15.12 has been found to contain an error in the English and Czech versions
(a windows resource missing in the related DLLs).
Now the problem has been fixed with version 15.13 that is available as usual at
digilander.libero.it/orologi.solari.
I apologize for the inconvenient.
Gia
