We’re on site at White Tail and all set up. After correcting for true north vs. magnetic north and for the celestial mechanics of earth rotational speed and orbital angle, it started raining. We have no idea what time it is…
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By secret ballot we have a winner for the motto – Runnin On Sunshine! I played the Jesus Jackson song for ’em while they punched it into the face. It seems a sundial is supposed to have a motto inscribed on its face. Who knew? The book we have offers many Latin snippets like ‘Tempus Fugit’ (time flies), or ‘Ecce Hora’ (Now or Never), or ‘Dum Licet Utere’ (while time is given, use it). I famously got an E minus in Latin, so we’re […] After some interpolation our on the template, we have the time marks. Now we’re punching in digits on the face. And we’re being so careful not to smash our own digits. And we’re laying out the gnomon (gnomon??). The thing that sticks out and casts the shadow. It mounts according to local latitude. There’s a […] We have a template for the sundial face and we’re tracing it using carbon paper just like the ancients. Ya know, like the people who lived in the fifties… It may just look like a chunk of oak trunk, but to us it’s our next project. A sundial! Step one is to seal the bottom. Step two is to read a book about making a sundial. Although one of us claims to have already done a unit on sundials in school. Also, since we […] |
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