Heber City  

Sundial: 531
State/Province:  Utah Country:  USA
Dial Type:  Horizontal Dial Condition:  Good
  Latitude and Longitude: 40° 32.706' N  111° 24.837' W
Location:
  • Off Route 40 on the Wasatch Campus of Utah Valley State College
 
Description:
  • A 51 x 36 foot horizontal dial with a 21 foot welded silicon bronze gnomon standing 14 feet high. The hour lines are copper inlaid in concrete and the hour markers are 4 inch high bronze Arabic numerals. At solar noon, sunlight passing through a slit in the gnomon illuminates the noon marker with a line of sunlight while prisms on the end of the gnomon project rainbows onto this line of light, making the sculpture a seasonal calendar as well as a way to tell time.

    Created by sculptor Robert Perless, Sun Dagger functions as a unique celestial observatory to amplify the synergy of man and nature. It also works as a seasonal calendar, celebrating the winter and summer solstices and the vernal and autumnal equinoxes with rainbows crossing the line of sunlight from the gnomon slit and falling on inscribed plaques.
 
General Information:Inscription:
  • Owner: State of Utah
  • Silicon bronze plaque reading, "The sun beats the true rhythm of time and the seasons."
  • Designer: Robert Perless, Sculptor
  • Builder: Robert Perless
  • Construction Date: 2004
 
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  • Sculpture funded by Public Art Program of Utah Arts Council.

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