A wonderful trio of solar eclipses on the Iberian Peninsula will occur. The first will occur on 12 August 2026 with viewing time of more than 2 minutes. lThe second, almost exactly a year later on 2 August 2027, will be even more spectacular, with an eclipse duration of 4 minutes. On 26 January 2028 Spain will encounter an annular solar eclipse, creating a view of the rim of the sun...
In August, 2009 the NASS Conference was held in Portland, Oregon and visited the sundial at Clark College in Vancouver, WA. The equatorial sundial, built in 1984, had just received a new gnomon: an analemmatic or "bowling pin" gnomon that corrects for the Equation of Time. On May 4th, 2026 the local newspaper of Clark County, the Columbian, reported that more than 40 years after its...
Heritage Auctions of Dallas, Texas, is auctioning a brass dial signed by "Patrick Hepburn, Marlborough, Maryland, 1720".. The dial face has a rich green patina with rough but accurate engraving of Roman numeral hours, delineated with half, quarter and eighth hour marks. The dial has an eight point compass rose with lettered points. Latitude is engraved as "LATT 39".The wide, but...
Do you wonder what a Bifilar Sundial is? Or a Campbell-Stokes Recorder? Maybe you are studying facts about astrolabes and come across the word almucantar. Are they rings in the sky?
Our perhaps you want to make a vertical dial and need the trigonometric formula to draw the hour lines and have forgotten where to look. All of these questions can be answered plus internet and NASS...
The Times Colonist in an article of March 28, 2026 by Hannah Link, reports that as of November 2026, British Columbia will change to permanent daylight time. "That means sundials in B.C. will always be one hour behind, no matter the time of year, said Victoria-based sundial enthusiast Steve Lelievre."
Photo: Times Colonist - The sun shines on the Sundial Garden in Beacon Hill...
Building on the success of the 2025 inaugural event celebrating world sundial day on March 20th, 2026. This global online gathering celebrates sundials, timekeeping, astronomy, history, art, mathematics, craftsmanship, and cultural heritage across the world.
World Sundial Day was originally created by Esteban Martínez Almirón on his website Reloj Andalusí. World Sundial Day is celebrated...
UPDATE: We will have a special tour of the Kentucky Viet Nam Memorial Sundial. See the attachment about the construction of this wonderful memorial.
Get ready to travel. This year the 31th NASS annual conference will be held in Louisville, KY at the Hyatt Regency Hotel June 25th - June 28th. The conference starts Thursday June 25th at 4:30pm with an opening reception, introductions,...
On October 4, 2025 Madison Historical Society of Ohio was able to have their sundial returned after 32 years, when in 1993 it was moved to the lawn of Lake County Courthouse to reduce the chance of vandalism. The sundial was originally placed at Madison Home 100 years ago on Saturday, October 24, 1925 during a conference of the Women's Relief Society. From 1904 to 1962 the state ran this...
NASS is pleased to announce the upcoming fifth instance of Elements of Dialing, our introductory course about sundials, their history, and the science that makes them work. The free 12-lesson course, intended for those are new to sundialing, runs from 27 October 2025 until 26 April 2026. The course instructor is Robert Kellogg, NASS Vice President and Sundial Registrar. Bob will be...
A Hungarian born American scientist, Mária Telkes (1900-1995), was called "The Sun Queen" and among other honors, was postmousthly inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. She lived to 95 and for most of her life developed solar power in a variety of forms.
Trained as a biophysicist, she worked for Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, PA, where she...
The annual NASS Conference was held 7-10 August, 2025 in Ottawa. As usual, the conference began late Thursday afternoon with an introduction social and a "grab bag give away", taking your chances with tickets to win the bag's prize. Will Grant was the final winner of the Walton Double Planar Polar Sundial, but Paul Ulbrich beat the statistic odds and won this prize three times,...
Prosciutto di Portici (Ham) Sundial
Photo: Getty Images
The Prosciutto di Portici Sundial, more often called the Portici Ham Sundial, dates from the first century somewhere between 8 BCE to 79 CE. This small silvered bronze dial was uncovered on 11 June, 1755 in the ruins of Herculaneum (current day Portici) in the "Villa of the Papyri", buried in...
Smithsonian Magazine holds a photo-of-the-day contest. Winner on 30 Oct 2023 was Harita Sistu who took a photo of the large sundial of Jantar Mantar, Jaipur India (taken in July 2022). Harita notes: "I wanted to try my best to capture just how massive the instrument is and bring focus into the incredible skill that went into designing and constructing it."
Harita Sistu - Award winning photo of the Equatorial Sundial at Jaipur, India
Civil = Sundial + EoT + dLon
where dLon is (4xNr Degrees W. of Time Zone
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