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2. Benjamin Wegner's sundial - Wikipedia

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   Wegner had a grand oval driveway built in front of the main building with a sundial in the middle of the lawn. [1] The sundial is constructed as an open globe, where the meridians cast a shadow on sunny days onto the inner part of the globe, hitting the inside of the equator line and thus showing the time, specifically the astronomical solar time.

3. Burt's solar compass - Wikipedia

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   Burt's solar compass or astronomical compass/sun compass is a surveying instrument that makes use of the Sun's direction instead of magnetism. William Austin Burt invented his solar compass in 1835. The solar compass works on the principle that the direction to the Sun at a specified time can be calculated if the position of the observer on the ...

4. Sunquest sundial - Wikipedia

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   The Sunquest Sundial is a sundial designed by Richard L. Schmoyer in the 1950s. Adjustable for latitude and longitude, the Sunquest's gnomon automatically corrects for the equation of time allowing it to tell clock time. The Sunquest sundial utilizes a cast aluminum gnomon, the shape of which is related to the analemma. When turned to face the ...

5. Schema for vertical declining dials - Wikipedia

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   A sundial schema uses a compass and a straight edge to firstly derive the essential angles for that latitude, then to use this to draw the hourlines on the dial plate. In modern terminology this would mean that graphical techniques were used to derive sin ⁡ x {\displaystyle \sin x} and m tan ⁡ y {\displaystyle m\tan y} and from it sin ⁡ x ...

6. Analemmatic sundial - Wikipedia

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   An analemmatic sundial uses a vertical gnomon and its hour lines are the vertical projection of the hour lines of a circular equatorial sundial onto a flat plane. [6] Therefore, the analemmatic sundial is an ellipse , where the short axis is aligned north–south and the long axis is aligned east–west.

7. Eagles Super Bowl parade highlights: See how Philadelphia ...

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   What time is the Eagles' Super Bowl parade? The parade is set to begin at 11 a.m. ET on Friday, Feb. 14, with a formal program set to take place in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art at 1 p.m ...

8. Danny Masterson sentencing - live: Judge slams ‘That ... - AOL

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   Danny Masterson, star of That 70s Show, has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for the rapes of two women two decades ago.. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo handed down ...

9. Talk:Sundial (weapon) - Wikipedia

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   The bullet points are all standard stuff. Rhodes' Dark Sun contains information about all of the above. The only jump is that the above "naturally" leads to the Sundial — it is not clear that the Sundial is a simple extension of the above. --NuclearSecrets 04:42, 3 December 2024 (UTC)