Re: Frank King

For someone like me who once worked in a herbarium, an "asterism" could conjure a mental image of a garden bed planted with a range of colourful daisies (members of the plant family Asteraceae). Cheers, John John Pickard john.pick...@bigpond.com -Original Message- From: Richard Lang

Star / constellation apps for Android

Greetings everyone, A week or so back I asked for recommendations for an Android app for identifying stars and constellations. As per usual for the Sundial List, I got several helpful replies and suggestions: Kim: Sky Safari 6 Marcelo: Star Rover Jim: Google Sky Map Patrick: Planets version 4

RE: Frank King

"fully" ? Sadly understated! -Original Message- From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Richard Langley Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:14 AM To: Frank King Cc: Sundial List Subject: Re: Frank King I run into that problem all the time concerning GPS and GNS

Re: Frank King

I run into that problem all the time concerning GPS and GNSS. Even editors of technical magazines are often not fully scientifically literate. In the editorial of a GNSS magazine this month, the editor stated that an asterism was a group of constellations! :-( -- Richard Langley --

Re: Frank King

Dear Willy et al, My suspicions ares confirmed... I have just received a message from David Leafe: Unfortunately, although I sent them the revised scientific information as we agreed it, they had to cut it down and I'm not sure that it now all makes sense... The errors are NOT the fault of

Re: Frank King

Dear Willy et al, You are quite right... > There are two fundamental errors in the > article by David Leafe for the Daily Mail. He spent an hour on the telephone to me yesterday evening. He went through his text about 20 times. The big problem, for me, was trying to explain the difference betw

Re: Frank King

Thank you, Dan. There are two fundamental errors in the article by David Leafe for the Daily Mail. He has not understood the lesson of Frank King. Error 1. "The tilt of the Earth's axis varies on a day to day basis." Here he confuses the "equation of time" with the "Earths axis". Error 2 "Noon

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Re: Frank King

Here's the link. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6727419/Top-sundial-expert-sheds-fascinating-light-art-form-fears-slipping-shadows.html Dan Uza On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:17 AM Colin Davis wrote: > Hi! > > In todays Daily Mail is a full page article by Frank King on his fear > about

Frank King

Hi! In todays Daily Mail is a full page article by Frank King on his fear about the demise of the sundial Cheers Colin Davis --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial