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Re: Analemmatic sundial
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jun 13, 11:15 -0400
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jun 13, 11:15 -0400
Peter -
Thanks for that! Making one of these for my yard is on my "to-do" list. Lord knows when I'll get to it, but I've seen a bunch of online instructions and designs.
John H.
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Peter Fogg <piterr11@gmail.com> wrote:
With this sundial, at Mount Annan Botanic Gardens on the southwestern fringes of Sydney (has a good collection of Eucalypts) the user's body, placed on the central analemma at the appropriate date, casts a shadow towards or between the hour stones which indicates the time.
If you're a bit short the shadow might not quite make the stones, but the instructions helpfully include the advice that in such a case to extend one's arms above one's head, which I noted also produces a sharper pointer than one's head.