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2017-02-19 Thread tonylindisun--- via sundial
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Re: The duration of the year

2017-02-19 Thread jmikeshaw
Doug, If you lived 1000 years ago, in temperate latitudes, you would see the sunrise and sunset azimuths move closer together as the winter solstice approached. They would then stop and move apart again. Knowing nothing about why this happened, you would worry in case one year they kept

Re: The duration of the year

2017-02-19 Thread Geoff Thurston
Doug, 1. You could do what the Egyptians and the Greeks did 1500 years earlier. Use a mural quadrant in the meridian to establish the greatest and least altitude of the noon sun ( from this you could calculate the orbital inclination and your latitude) and mark the mid altitude. You