| Description: |
- The dial is a raised horizontal circle 18 inches in diameter. The nearly inch-wide brass gnomon supports a raised relief globe, with the Hawaiian Islands uppermost to accurately show which part of the world is in sunlight. The dial has hour lines and a ring of 5-minute marks. Hours are numbered from 6 until 18. Cardinal points and magnetic north are indicated. Dial shows some signs of deterioration. Designer Ginnosuke Ohara is a dialist with Japan's Research Institute for Sundials. The dial base is a mushroom design of concrete about 40 inches high and 40 inches in diameter. A time capsule is located in the base, to be opened in 2030.
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General Information: | Inscription: | - Owner: University of Hawaii
| - An attached plaque reads: "The first science which primitive people discovered was the movement of the heavenly bodies/ Dialist Ginn. Ohara" A second plaque has the Equation of Time incorporating longitude correction. A third plaque explains the EOT corrections.
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- Designer: Ginnosuke Ohara
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- Construction Date: Dedicated 1979
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| References: |
- IAPS Listing, May 95
Star Bulletin, (Honolulu) Jan 22, 1980, p. A2.
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