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Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:52 PM
Subject: date scale
Hello Everyone
I really like the drawing you made John for your customers - it helps a lot.
Thank you.
Thanks Tony for the picts and Powerpoint presentation - it is wonderful.
Thanks Chi-Lian
Hi Everyone
My date scale has been put on hold for a little bit since
it is so cold now: 12 degrees F at night and only in the 30's during the
day! B! I hope this cold weather doesn't hurt the concrete - it was pretty
hard before the cold front came in. It was 60 degrees the day
Subject: date scale
Hello Everyone
I really like the drawing you made John for your
customers - it helps a lot. Thank you.
Thanks Tony for the picts and Powerpoint presentation -
it is wonderful.
Thanks Chi-Lian and Linda for your
comments.
After reading the advice I have
Hi Tracy,
I've attached a photo of the date scale I did for an
analemmatic sundial at a swimming pool. The footprints are intended to hint that
you should stand on the centreline. The date scale is a circle. Find the date on
the circle, mentally follow the east-west line to the inner arc
date scale the conventional way - although I think the analemma
looks way cooler! It looks as if the first day of summer and the first day of
winter are at each end of the scale. Is this true always? Also, does one stand
directly on the centerline, or on the month "block" which falls t
Lets try again with my subscribed address...
Karl
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Subject: Re: date scale
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:34:36 +1000
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To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:53:53AM +0100, Chris Lusby Taylor wrote:
Hi Tracy, You say
the
radiating lines - of course not, what was I thinking? Ha ha! I like the mosaic
sundial on that website. What is wrong with the analemma? That is how I want my
date scale to look.
Thank you Tony for the info I will check it out. That is a
great sundial - is that you laying it out? Did you build
latitude, the size of the dial is fixed once you've decided on the length of the
date scale (or vice versa). A ten foot long date scale inevitably needs a big
dial. I find a three foot date scale quite long enough in England.
A lot of people seem to think you must stand facing north
on an a
Of Tracy Paine
Sent: October 26, 2006 5:55 PM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: date scale
Hello
Thank you Chris. In regards to your question, the major axis
of my sundial is 33 feet. I used large basalt rocks for the hour marks. I tried
to send a picture of it here, but the file was too big I
Hello everyone!
Thank you all for the help you gave mepreviously
regarding "finding true north." I am now going to be pouring concrete for the
date scale in my ananemmatic sundial. I am making the concrete pad 3 feet wide
and 10 feet long. I have one question: do I lay out the cen
Hi Tracy,
The date scale should be on the N-S centreline of the
elliptical dial (i.e. the minor axis of the ellipse). The position of the 12
noon point is irrelevant.
3 feet by 10 feet is a big scale. How big is the
dial?
Regards
Chris
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From:
Tracy Paine
Hello
Thank you Chris. In regards to your question, the
major axis of my sundial is 33 feet. I used large basalt rocks for the hour
marks. I tried to send a picture of it here, but the file was too big I guess. I
plan to mosaic the top of the concrete date scale after it is cured. I would
Hi Roger
Thanks for the info. I have HUGE rocks for the summer,
spring/fall, and winter sunrises that lie just outside the sundial ellipse.
However, after reading through the seasonal markers section of your website I
now realize what the seasonal markers are. I placed the rocks so that the
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