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Sundials and Latitude
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Download/DVD: hilaroad.com Designing a sundial for the top of the earth, the North Pole, is easy. Move to another latitude and it becomes more difficult. This video looks at the issues around sundials and latitudes. To construct a sundial view the video “Create a Sundial – 4″ The four videos in this series are “Time – 1″, “Our Planet is a Clock – 2″, “Sundials and Latitude – 3″ and “Create a Sundial – 4″ … sundial time latitude navigation astronomy …
17 Comments
November 14th, 2009 at 2:29 am
excellent video
November 14th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Wow… great vid… this information is quite useful. Thank you
November 14th, 2009 at 4:23 am
It is a very educative piece of information. School going children around the world need to know, understand and explain this important concept not only to friends but their families as well. I now believe that internet has brought more infomation which was hidden. I for one, am in Norway where I am getting suprised as to why the sun does not set so far as it happens where I come from in Africa. to be frank, Here in Norway I sleep by the watch and not by the light. Thank you for the news.
November 14th, 2009 at 4:54 am
Only twice a year, at the equinoxes where they’re hard to read because the whole dial face is in the shadow of the disc’s edge.
November 14th, 2009 at 5:46 am
It’s one of the best ways to design one there. The video mentions Ecuador– it turns out, that place has just this sort of sundial in many places. They’re traditional _and_ a tourist photo-op!
November 14th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Does the time of year come into play?
November 14th, 2009 at 6:15 am
wait dose this mean that sundails on the equator have to be standing virtical? whao kinda like a gaint wall clock
November 14th, 2009 at 7:07 am
wow thx for teaching me
November 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
wow !! thanx ! we have to make sundile in our school so now u help me alot
November 14th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Nicely done, it solved a lot of my questions. Good job!
November 14th, 2009 at 7:49 am
good jod dude
November 14th, 2009 at 8:05 am
nice
November 14th, 2009 at 8:41 am
thanks . i believe Arabs were the first who invented the sundial and the 1st who invented the watch.
November 14th, 2009 at 8:54 am
o my god,i never knew….learning IS fun,Thanks!
November 14th, 2009 at 9:25 am
nice things to learn about
November 14th, 2009 at 9:38 am
…or at nighttime…
November 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Wow! Thanks, Bro! Very cool and useful. But any ideas about how to know what time it is on a cloudy day (without watches, etc.)?
Peace,
- QDJ