Thanks very very much to all of you who responded to my request for input
on the analemmatic dial instructions! Each and every one of you offered
thoughtful and useful advice, most of which I will take. Adaptation to
correct to standard time is way at the bottom of my priority list but I
john hoy wrote:
> I've gotten a fair amount of email lately from people who want to make
an
> analemmatic dial but are not comfortable with technical or theoretical
> explanations -- they just want a sundial.
>
> I've tried to prepare some simple, hopefully not confusing,
instructions,
> which I
Hello John,
In your analemmatic dial instructions in the table for de coordinates of the
hour markers I found a
type error: in the column of the Y-values 0.996 must be 0.966.
I calculated the declination values you use in the tangens function for the
coordinates of the data
scale (first
I've gotten a fair amount of email lately from people who want to make an
analemmatic dial but are not comfortable with technical or theoretical
explanations -- they just want a sundial.
I've tried to prepare some simple, hopefully not confusing, instructions,
which I would like to invite any of