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Analemmatic sundial
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2010 Jun 13, 18:26 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2010 Jun 13, 18:26 +1000
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.
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.
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