Greetings fellow dialists, In response to Steve Turley's desire to obtain a compass direction from the sun to within plus or minus thirty degrees, forget all instrumentation and employ a method which works in sunshine and overcast and even at night. Just look at the orientation of the satellite dishes on the houses as you drive past. I believe they all point well within thirty degrees of south, at least in the northern hemisphere.
For greater accuracy, of course, it is possible to install a sundial on the dish itself and you can still allow it to receive sky signals, as several contributors have elegantly done. Not easy to carry along, though. Frank 55N 1W -- Frank Evans -
