Axel,
I agree totally with the comments of Frans Maes.
I would add this comment:
The detailed scale of dates with an interval of five days gives the impression
that the position of the gnomon for a given day is accurately determined.
However, the location of the gnomon depends on the declinatio
erent correction for am and pm. Helmut's
Alemma handles split analemmas but in general, don't go there as the complexity
outweighs the utility.
Regards,
Roger Bailey
Walking Shadow Designs
From: Dan Uza
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 11:19 AM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: Analemmati
Dan,
A good site for answers on your questions is:
http://www.fransmaes.nl/zonnewijzers/welcome-e.htm --> analemmatic --> the
human scale
The website in Croatia recommended by Martina Addiscott is giving false
indications
- the sundials provide a correction for the official time while a sundia
In message
Dan Uza wrote:
> Hello,
>
> From your experience, what is the best analemmatic sundial size to be set
> up at a children playground? I was thinking about a width of 5.4 meters,
> the base consisting of a row of 4 concrete pavement tiles (40x40 cm) and 12
> other smaller til
Hello,
>From your experience, what is the best analemmatic sundial size to be set
up at a children playground? I was thinking about a width of 5.4 meters,
the base consisting of a row of 4 concrete pavement tiles (40x40 cm) and 12
other smaller tiles for the hours. Should their surface be more smo
