NASS Link Page Updated 23 April 2024
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SUNDIAL SOCIETIES
- The Analemma Society
- AARS Asociación de Amigos de los Relojes de Sol (Spanish Friends of Sundials Association)
- How to join your national sundial society
- Zonnewijzerkring Vlaanderen (Sundial Society of Flanders, Belgium)
- De Zonnewijzerking (Sundial Society of the Netherlands)
- Sundial Society-Birkenau-Germany
- The British Sundial Society
- QuadrantiSolari - Links to Italia Societies
- Catalonia Sundial Society
- Orologi Solari Sundial Society of Italy
- The Japanese Sundial Society
- Deutche Gesellshaft fur Chronometrie
- La Commission des Cadrans solaires du Québec
- Commission des Cadrans Solaires de la Société Astronomique de France
- Cadrans Solaires Magazine (Sundials for All Magazine)
LINKS AND MORE LINKS
- Sundial Atlas - World List of Sundials
- Danial Roth’s Sundial Links – comprehensive
- The Sundial Mailing List - international group
- Tips for Searching the Sundial Mailing List Archive
- Google finds definitions of 'sundial'
- Wikipedia Sundials (Links, History, Math, and More)
- Illustrating Shadows
- True Time Workshop - Sundial Blog - Oleg Frolkov describes many different sundials (in Russian w/Google Translate)
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
- The Sundial Primer by Carl Sabanski
- Building simple sundials - European Assoc. for Astronomy Education
- Solar Energy, Eclipses and Other Pehnomena A good resource for information about solar energy
- Introduction to Sundial Types by Frans Maes (very thorough)
- Fun in the Sun - A Sundial Tutorial by Helga Nordhoff
- Sunshine in your pocket! Making a sundial for the northern hemisphere.
- Making a Sun Clock
- Sun-Earth Day Kit from NASA
- What is a Sundial? - Christopher Daniel
- Measuring the Sky - A Quick Guide to the Celestial Sphere
- Make a Simple Sundial - Instructions
- Make a Sundial - Hour Line Calculator and Video Instructions
- Watches Back in Time (Resource links found by the students of Jessica Lee)
- History of Horology - Clockmaking and Watches
- All About the Sun's Light - Simple reference to facts about sunlight
- Photos of Sundial Types (In French, but very accessible)
SUNDIAL CONSTRUCTION FOR KIDS
- PopUp Paper Sundial Calculator
- Paper Cut Out Vertical Sundial (in many languages)
- Sundials & Solar System for Kids
- Sundial Resources K-8
- Build an Equatorial LEGO Sundial
- Sundial Zone - Make a Sundial
SUNDIAL SOFTWARE & CALCULATORS
- Almanac of Solstices, Equinoxes and Cross Quarter - 2011
- Correct a Commercial Dial to your Latitude & Longitude
- Azimut und Elevation der Sonne
- Orologi Solari software program Downl oad (English)
- Computer aided dialling (CAD) links from Carl Sabanski
- DeltaCad Programs from Valentin Hristov
- Earth and Moon Viewer – amazing software views of our planet
- Illustrating Shadows
- Jürgen Giesen's GeoAstro Java Applets
- NOAA - Refraction and Other Formulas
- NOAA - Solar Position Calculator
- Precision Sundials LLC Software and Other Downloads
- Shadows Pro Sundial and Astrolabe Software
- Solar data JavaScript calculator
- Solar Position, Sun CHarts, Sky Watch,and more from Build It Solar
- Sonnenuhren Free software by Helmut Sonderegger
- Sun Position Calculator
- Sun Earth Tools for solar panels
- SUN an Excel spreadsheet calculating important information for dialists.
- Sundial generator from The Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Tools and Resources for Sun Calculations and Observations
- USNO - Naval Oceanographic Portal
- Virtual Sundial based on the Queens' College dial, Cambridge, UK.
- Welcome to the Sundial Calculator.
- zw2000 - very popular with lots of information and easy to use Fer J. de Vries
GNOMONICS, TRIGONOMETRY AND DIAL CONSTRUCTION
- Convert from deg/min/sec to decimal degrees and vise-versa
- What is Trigonometry?
- Dave's Short Trig Course
- Frequently Asked Questions About Trigonometry
- An introduction to Trigonometry
- Spherical Trigonometry - a new approach (Advanced)
- Cupola Sundial Construction Plans - John Carmichael
- A Polar Cycloid Sundial - Carl Sabanski
- NASA – Make a Sundial
- Tridux 2000 - a device for laying out mirror sundials
- Postcard Sundials - Martins Gills
- A Quest for a Civil Time Polar Sundial
- Zegary Sloneczne Sundials - Theory and Practice (Polish)
- Planetary Society Education & Outreach
ANALEMMATIC SUNDIALS
- Make your own Analemmatic Sundial
- Making an Analemmatic Sundial
- Analemmatic Sundial - How to Build One (NASS)
- Analemmatic Sundial - How to Build One (Pass.Maths.org)
- A new analemmatic sundial in Torreon, Mexico
- Two mean-time analemmatic sundials - Yvon Massé
- Longwood Gardens Analemmatic Sundial - Ken Seidelmann
- Of Analemmas, Mean Time, and the Analemmatic Sundial - Fred W. Sawyer III
- Sunclocks - Human Sundials
- Restoration of the analemmatic sundial at Besançon
ARMILLARY SPHERES
- Woodrow Wilson Memorial - Armillary Sphere 1939
- Cycle of Life Armillary Sphere - Manship
- Meridian Hill Armillary by Manship - Lost in DC
- Giant Armillary Proposed for Theodore Roosevelt Island - Manship
ASTROLABES and ISLAMIC SUNDIALS
- Sundials in Turkey (Ottoman)
- Ottoman Sundial at the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Examen del reloj solar de Ahmad ibn a.s-.Saffar
- The Astrolabe and Chaucer Lots of Information
- Build an Astrolabe
- Make Your Own Astrolabe - NOAA Instructions
- Build Your Own Astrolabe - WIth Teacher Resource Kit
BIFILAR SUNDIALS
- Wikipedia - Bifilar Sundials
- The Bifilar Sundial
- Bifilar Gnomonics Fred Sawyer
- Delta Cad software for Bifilar Sundials Vanentin Hristrov
- Universal Bifilar Sundial
- Theory of Constructing a Bifilar Sundial PDF Download
MASS DIALS
- The Aldbrough Historic Sundial in East Yorkshire
- The Kirkdale Historic 1055 AD sundial in North Yorkshire
MONUMENTAL DIALS
- Manship - 1939 New York World's Fair - Sundial "Time and the Fates of Man"
- Kiselewsk -1939 New York World's Fair - Giant Sundial "Time"
- Kazuo Matsubayashi's Asteroid Landed Softly Sundial
- Mount Laguna Observatory Sundial
- Jaipur Observatory Sundial
- Photo Essay on Jantra Mantar - Five Indian Observatories
- The Pinawa Heritage Sundial
- Perkin Horizontal and Analemmatic Sundial in Illinois
- A unique 48 foot tall sundial in Louisa, VA
- The Kentucky Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
- Design of Kentucky Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
MOON DIALS AND BEYOND TO THE PLANETS
- Moon Connection (Lunar calendar and interesting facts about the moon)
- Full Moon Declination (University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
- Telling the Time by Moonlight
- The Moondial
- A Martian Analemma
- Mars Dial - Two Worlds, One Sun
- A Lunar Analemma
- Celestial Products: Moon Posters
GEOCACHING, SUNDIAL TRAILS, AND WAYMARKING
- Waymarking Sundials (neat - at least 8 pages)
- A Sundial Park in Genk, Belgium (English) & (Dutch)
- Zonnewijzers in Genk (Sundials in the Genk Park)
- Sundial Trails Around the World
- St. Louis Sundial Trail
- Amsterdam Sundial Trail
- Google Earth visualize places on the entire earth
SCHMOYER SUNDIAL
- Schmoyer Sunquest Dial History
- Schmoyer Dial - Perkins Observatory
- Schmoyer Dial - Precision Sundials
- Schmoyer Dial - On Facebook
- Schmoyer Dial - St. Louis
SUNDIALS AT RAILROAD STATIONS
- Templecombe Railway Station Analemmatic Sundial, Somerset UK
- Union Station Horizontal Dial - Los Angeles CA United States
- Sundial at Railway Station in Lenk, Switzerland
- Sun Pointer at Amersfoor Central Station, Netherlands
- Sundials at Santa Fe Railroad Station Dodge City Kansas US (need photos)
- Osaka Station Sundial, Japan
- Liverpool Road Station Sundial - 1830's Manchester Railway Terminus UK
- Topiary Sundial Nairobi Train Station of Busch Gardens Tampa FL US
SUNDIAL AND ASTRONOMICAL VIDEOS
ANCIENT STONE ALIGNMENTS
- Video: Solstice 2007 at Newgrange - Resequenced 6 Minute Version
- Video: Newgrange - Megalithic Marvel – Ancient Inside, 1970’s Outside
- Video: Tomb of Newgrange - Nat'l Geographic
- Video: Stonehenge Astronomical Observatory
- Video: Secrets of Stonehenge - National Geographic
- Video: Stonehenge Monument - National Geographic
- Video: New View on Stonehenge Burials - National Geographic
- Video: New Stonehenge Discovery - National Geographic
- Video: Ancient Monuments of Isle of Man
- Video: Sun's Natural Light at Yosemite Horsetail Falls
- Video: Sun Dagger at Chaco Canyon - Several Videos of the Sun Dagger
- Video: 3D Tour of the Sun Dagger at Chaco Canyon
- Video: Maes Howe Chambered Cairn
ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM - THE ANCIENT CELESTIAL COMPUTER
- Visit Antikythera - Machine of the Cosmos website for video links
- Video: Antikythera Exhibition at National Archaeological Museum
- Video: Antikythera Mechanism - PBS Nova
- Video: Antikythera Mechanism - 2D
- Video: Antikythera Tomographic Slices of Fragment A
- Video: Antikythera Underwater World
- Video: Antikythera Mapping the Shipwreck
- Video: Antikythera Decoding the 2000 Yr Old Computer (BBC)
ASTRONOMY FUNDAMENTALS
MEASURING TIME AND SUN TRANSITS
- Video: Sundials and Latitude - A description of sunlight falling on the earth
- Video: Measuring Time Through the Centuries – Stonehenge to Digital Watches
- Video: Science Online - Our Planet is a Clock
- Video: NASA - Transit of Venus
MERIDIANA
- Video: Sun on Cassini's Meridian in San Pertronio - Bologna (In Italian)
- Video: La Meridiana di S. Maria degli Angeli - Roma– nice
- Video: Meridiana Modica – Watch a Spot of Sun
- Video: La Meridiana della chiesa della Visitazione di Perinaldo
- Video: La Linea del Sole - Museo Storia/ Scienza - Firenze (in Italian)
- Video: Sun on Cassini's Meridian in San Pertronio - Bologna (In Italian)
- Video: La Meridiana di S. Maria degli Angeli - Roma– nice
- Video: La Meridiana della chiesa della Visitazione di Perinaldo
- Video: Watch the Analemma Over New Jersey
MAKING SUNDIALS AND GNOMONICS
- Video: Gino & Judith Schiovone Create the Bowie Portal Sundial 2011
- Video: Brief History of Sundials and How to Make & Use Them - J. Warren
- Video: Tony Moss Making a Sundial - BBC News
- Video: Large Analemmatic Built for Malta School
- Video: Greenwich Dolphin Sundial
- Video: Focusing Sundial of Bill Gottesman
- Video: Digital Sundial at Burning Man - A Digital Sundial goes up in smoke
- Video: Sundials - Canadian Science and Technology Museum
- Video: Make an Equatorial Sundial w/CD and Toothpick (Tilt CD to 90-Latitude)
- Video: Measuring Time Through the Centuries – Stonehenge to Digital Watches
- Video: TED Lecture - Sending a Sundial to Mars - Bill Nye
- Video: A number on Equation of Time: K.Karney Precise Directions
HISTORICAL BUILDINGS & SUNDIALS
- Video: 17th Century Sundial Discovered at Historic Jamestown
- Video: A 3D Tour of the Pantheon in Rome (In Italian)
- Video: Architecture of the Pantheon (Architecture Documentary)
- Video: History and Architecture of the Pantheon
- Video: Longyearbyer Sundial
- Virtual Tour: The Jantar Mantar Observatory - Google Arts & Culture
SUNDIAL PHOTO GALLERIES
- John Carmichael Stained Glass Sundials From Around The World
- John Carmichael Sundial Cupolas, Towers & Painted Wall Sundials
- Sundials and Theory of Dials at Les cadrans solaires par Jean Pakhomoff
- Willy Leenders Zonnewijzers In Limburg and Neatherlands
- Photo Essay on Jantra Mantar - Five Indian Observatories
- Cadrans Solaires Website - Joël Robic
- Gallery of Sundials of the Month - Frans Maes
- Atlas of Sundials - More than 12,000 photos around the world
- Sundials of the Camino
- Sundials of Scotland - Dennis Cowan
- Gallery of Sundials in Cities Around the World (in Russian)
SUNDIALS IN THE ARTS
- Sundials in the Movies - François Blateyron
- Holbein's Ambassadors polyhedral and cyl indrical sundials
- Holbein's - The Secret of The Ambassadors
- Holbein's Sundials & Instruments
- Mario Arnaldi's collection La Gnomonica nell'Arte
- Kaii Higashiyama (1908 - 1999)
- Franz Marquis Von Bayros (1866 -1924)
- The Measurers: a Flemish Painting of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century
- Rosse tti's Dantis Amor (3 images)
- Rossetti's Beata Beatrix
- M. C. Escher - sundial
- Poem For a Day - Jiyeon Song
TIME SYSTEMS and LONGITUDE
- 1884 International Prime Meridian Conference - Full Text
- Video: 1884 Longitude Conference
- About the measure of time
- A Brief History of Time Zones
- A Brief History of Time - From Thales to Callippus
- Coordinated Universal Time
- Greenwich Observatory - The Prime Meridian
- Legislative Specification for Coordinating with Universal Time
- Requirements for Universal Time Coordinated and Civil Timekeeping
- Time Zone Map
- The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second
- The Longitude of Greenwich and its relationship to GPS
- World Time Zone Map - USNO
- World Cities - Time and Weather
- Why the U.S. Wants To End the Link Between Time and Sun
- Why the Greenwich Meridian Moved
- WGS-84 and the Greenwich Meridian
- Why the U.S. Wants To End the Link Between Time and Sun
CALENDARS - FROM BABYLON TO TODAY
- Astronomical Calendars – Sea and Sky
- Calendrical and Astronomical Links
- How the Date of Easter is Determined
- Calen dar and Timekeeping at Ancient Qumran – the Judean luni-solar calendar
- Mayan Hieroglypics and the Dresden Codex
- Mayan Calendar and the DresdenCodex
- Venus and the Dresden Codex
- Babylonian Calendar and the Venus Table of Ammisaduqa
- On the Astronomical Records and Babylonian Chronology
- The Venus Tablets of Ammizaduga (1928)
EQUATION OF TIME AND THE ANALEMMA
- Graphical Explanation of the Equation of Time
- Calendar Systems of the World
- Equation of Time Website - Kevin Karney
- The vernal equinox also the autumnal equinox
- Photographing the Analemma with a Pin-Hole Camera
- Amazing Gallery of Analemma Photos - Anthony Ayiomamitis
- Analemma - NASA Photo of the Day – Anthony Ayiomamitis
- Analemma - an extensive explanation - Bob Urschel
MERDIANA - SOLAR LINES IN THE CHURCH
- The Line of the Sun - Institute and Museum of History of Science
- Meridian of Milan Cathedral
- Meridian of Fossombrone
- Meridian of Santa Maria degli Angeli
- Eclipses And Pin-Hole Sundials The eclipse of 1999
- The Meridian Gnomon of Saint Sulpice
- Saint Sulpice Summer Solstice Plaque
- Meridiane in Piemonte (Italian)
- Meridian at the Paris Observatory
ANCIENT DIALS and ALIGNMENTS
- The Tower of Radkan - Solar Observatory - An Iranian site ~1261 AD
- Radkan Tower of Iran
- Egyptian Sundial from Thutmosis III (dated 1479-1425 BCE)
- Egyptian Sundial from Ramsesside Period (dated 1292 – 1069 BCE)
- Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Sundials & Methods
- Sunrise on the Equinox + 1
- Solar alignments at the Arc de Triomphe Link 1 Link 2 Link 3
- The Sun Dagger in Chaco Canyon
- Chaco Canyon Solstice Project
- Sun Dagger – NASA article
- View from an Anasazi Cave - William Calvin
- Medicine Wheel
- Obliquity Applet – Compute earth’s obliquity over the ages
- Equinox - The Mayan Astronomers
- Megalithic Tomb at Knowth - Ireland
- Megalithic Tomb at Newgrange - Ireland
- Ancient Sundials of Ireland
- Ancient Astronomical Alignments – NASA article - Dr. Sten Odenwald
- Sun Watchers Through Time – NASA multimedia
- Callanish Stones
HISTORICAL SUNDIALS
- Largest Sundials - Jaipur and Jantar Mantar Sundial legacy of Jai Singh II
- Centuries of Stained Glass Sundials
- Reproduction of Thomas Jefferson's Spherical Sundial
- Scientists identify sundial at Qumran
- Lo strumento astronomico di QUMRAN - Nuove interpretazioni(PDF - Italian)
- A polyhedral dial attributed to Nicholas Kratzer
- Astronomic Clock of Prague See the Excel spreadsheet at the bottom of the page.
- Athens: The Tower of the Winds
- Histoire de la mesure du temps (French)
- Queens' College Dial
- The MacTutor History Archive of Mathematics
- Gnomonic Blocks-15th Century Multi-Faceted Sundials
- History of Astronomy - Instruments - University of Bonn
- Augustus' sundial
MUSEUMS, PLANATERIUM AND SUNDIAL COLLECTIONS
- Institute and Museum of History of Science Florence
- Sundial park in Genk, Belgium
- Sundials in the National Maritime Museum
- Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Rennaissance Europe
- Sundials of Germany
- Museo Galileo Excellent short videos on sundials, astrolabes, and more
- Old quadrant in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
- A walk through time - National Institute of Science & Technology
- Sundial pages at the Bremen Planetarium (German)
- Adler Planetarium Sundial Collection (Search the Collection)
REFERENCE BOOKS
- The Book Of Sun-Dials originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty
- Chapter-II The Book Of Sun-Dials A Celebration of Women Writers
- Digital Library - Univ of Pennsylvania - Celebration of Women Writers
- Google Book Search – All the Standard Sundial Books in Print
- BSS Sundial Glossary – John Davis
- Sundial Books
- Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday Earl - 1902
- de Architectura - Book IX Marcus Vitruvius - Roman MS on science and sundials
GENERAL
- The Sundial - the time in light and shadow games (Italian)
- Explore the Sundial and Astronomical Interests of Reinhold Kriegler (German)
- Science & Society Picture Library Sundials
- Sundials in the Garden - Scott Arboretum
- Robert Adzema's sundial at the Hyatt in Jersey City
- Derbyshire Sundials
- A Few Sundials - Bill Thayer
- Tony Moss' "Multi Dial"
- Cadrans solaires Explanation of the Equation of Time (French)
- Magnetic Declination
- The Longyearbyen Sundial (Most northern sundial)
- Sundials At New College, Oxford (PDF)
- Sundials at Wadham College, Oxford (PDF)
- Sundials - The New Zealand Garden Journal
- Sundials- Brooke Clarke - many links
- The Homepage of Mario Arnaldi
- Convert geographical co-ordinates: - decimal to d,m,s; and vise- versa
- Sundials National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Sundials - Encyclopaedia Brittannica
- Sundial Mottos - Wikipedia
- Sundial Mottos - Sundials on the Internet
- Gnomonics Riccardo Anselmi (Italian, English)
- Solis et Artis Opus Mario Arnaldi (Italian)
- Gnomonica Rosa Casanova (Italian)
- Mario Arnaldi (Italian)
- Gnomonique par Yvon Massé (French)
DIALS AROUND THE WORLD
- Truman State University's Solar Clock Garden (or horologium florae, or floral sundial)
- The Earth &Sky Equatorial Sundial by John Carmichael
- Greenwich - Dolphin Sundial
- Greenwich - Dolphin Sundial History
- Perranzabuloe Millenium Sundial - Cornwall
- Precision sundial in Tholey (German)
- The Amble Dial - (England)
- A giant sundial in Cornwall (Proposed)
- Lumbutts Sundial - West Yorkshire
- Sundial on the Atelier Acacia in Mont-Dauphin (Haute Alpes, France)
- "Child Sundial" at the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Stellafane Russell Porter Sun Clock
- Queens' College Dial
- Sundial at Fort Oranje, St.Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean.
- A Mirror Sundial in Bremen
- Sundial in Beijing
- British Sundialists visit White Rock, Vancouver
- London-Footprints Sundials
- Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Prague Sundial Trail
- Proposed Sundial for Reykjavik, Iceland
- Sundials in Ireland
- Cadrans Solaires en Alsace
- Cadrans Solaires de Paris
- Cadrans Solaires France
- Cadrans Solaires de Paris (French)
- L'Obélisque de la Concorde (French)
- Zonnewijzers, schaduw van de tijd (Dutch) Wiley Leender -Sundials of Flanders
- Sonnenuhren in Trier (German)
- Sonnehurenfreunde der Region Basel
- A new sundial in Bremen (German)
- Bremen - (German)
- Sonnenuhr (German)
- Sonnenuhren - Daniel Roth (German)
- Some sundials in Rome
- Orologio Solare Equatoriale - Pisa (English
- Imago Romae Horologium- The sundials of Grottaferrata, Rome
- Cuadrantes Solares De Yucatán, México
- Sundials of Limburg - a province of Flanders (in Dutch – Willey Leenders- click around)
- Gnomonica cadrans solaires de Belgique
- A sundial at Kochi Castle (Japan)
- Saracinesco, the town of sundials
- Long Island City Sundial (U.S. proposed sundial project)
- Turtle Bay Bridge (U.S. Redding CA Santiago Calatrava’s)
- Sundials of Yugoslavia
- A Virtual Tour
- Opening Day at Sundial Bridge
MISCELLANEOUS SUNDIAL ARTICLES
- The Kellogg's Raisin Bran Sundial
- McDonald's makes a McSundial
- Sundial on a computer chip
- Pilkington Gibbs Heliochronometer
- Make various sundials including one using your fingers
- There used to be a sundial here...
- Use the wisdom of the sun to aim a satellite dish.
ANTIQUE DEALERS
SUNDIAL DEALERS
- Digital Sundials International and how it works: Digital Sundial Patent
- David Brown Sundials - Sundial Making & Letter Cutting
- Helios Sundials (German Firm Text in English)
- Sundials Australia
- A Stonehenge watch
- Zegary Sloneczne (Polish Artisans)
- See the NASS webpage NASS Sundial Artisans