Fwd: Vertical stereographic sundial

2022-10-30 Thread Peter Mayer
Hi Maciej, Thanks for your recent post. Since no one seems to have replied to your plea in the final paragraph for software to draw a stereographic/Oughtred dial, here are some existing open software options: * Gian Casalegna's _Orologi Solari_ will draw one: azimuth: horizontal/vertical: as

Typo correction in most recent post

2022-10-30 Thread Michael Ossipoff
# 5, in my most recent post, should say: . To determine the hour-angle of the mean-Sun: . 1. Convert the minutes in the LMT to a fraction of an hour. . 2. Subtract 12 hours from the LMT, or add 12 hours to the LMT…whichever gives a number between 0 & 24. . 3. Multiply the result by 15. ---

EqT estimate without knowing when Eqt was zero

2022-10-30 Thread Michael Ossipoff
(I’d post this as a “reply” to my existing topic, but that thread doesn’t show up in my display, & so it’s necessary to post this as a new topic.) . Yesterday I described a way of estimating EqT, which depended on the fact that the EqT is zero on some known day. But EqT can be also estimated wit

Re: Paris sundial

2022-10-30 Thread Bill Gottesman
Is this real or a concept? The shadows don’t move in the rest of the image. - Bill On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 7:14 AM Alexei Pace wrote: > Interesting one in Rue Montmartre > https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cj0hS2JIPQV/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 11:58 Werner Riegler wrote: > >>

Paris sundial

2022-10-30 Thread Alexei Pace
Interesting one in Rue Montmartre https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cj0hS2JIPQV/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 11:58 Werner Riegler wrote: > Dear John, > > I know this object as “Horizontoscope". > http://www.horizontoscop.com/eng/index_eng.html > > I bought one recently after reading a