Sunny Day! For all you new users of Ricardo Cernic's great Excel application "Sun", version 5.2 has just been released. Please note that this will be last major revision of this application for a while. But this version is worth getting. The major item is the addition of a new sheet called "Clock". This sheet contains 3 digital clocks and each one can be set to display any one of the following:
Local Time Sundial Time Italian Time Babylonian Hours Temporal Hours Sidereal Hours UT If you discover any problems with the application, other than it doesn't work on a Mac, please let Ricardo know and he will correct it if need be. Please don't send your emails to me as all I can do is forward them. You can get the latest version at: www.mysundial.ca/tsp/sun.html Also if you are getting more involved in Computer Aided Dialling I have posted a very useful freeware application called "Convert". It can be used to convert distances between various units. "Convert" has many other uses as well and I am sure that you will want a copy. If you have been downloading the free dialling software available, you have discovered that some come as ZIP files. If you have no way of extracting these files I have also posted a link to a free "ZIPReader". I use it. These items can be found at: www.mysundial.ca/tsp/utilities.html If you are interested in building a stained glass sundial but have a problem with the design, in particular doing the mirror image thing, there is a trick you can use. Visit the updated "Stained Glass Sundial" page at "The Sundial Primer" and learn about it. Anybody can design a stained glass sundial! If you are looking for a sundial project that is a little out of the ordinary how about a shadow plane sundial using objects. With Ricardo's help, I have updated the second page of the "Shadow Plane Sundial" section to include a method of determining the range for the length of the hour lines for such a sundial. Finally, in the near future I hope to have a series of instruction sets for the sundial design package SONNE that will be similar to those I developed for ZW2000. If you do not have these "FREE" design packages, I urge you to download them and start learning to use them. They make designing many different sundials easy and fun. Spring is here...where I live anyway. Get excited about sundials! Design and build your own. It's just that easy! So, "Get Hooked on Gnomonics!" Happy Dialling! Carl Sabanski www.mysundial.ca "Get Hooked on Gnomonics!" --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
