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Anthem |
Arizona |
USA |
Sun Alignment |
821 |
| The Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, AZ was dedicated on November 11, 2011 at 11am (11-11-11) to honor the service and sacrifice of the United States armed forces and to provide a place of honor and reflection for veterans, their family and friends. Veterans gather here annually on November 11th to watch a solar alignment at 11:11am when the sun... |
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Bullhead City |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
458 |
| This horizontal dial is an engraved flagstone approximately 42 inches in diameter designed by John Carmichael. The monofilar gnomon is a stranded brass cable that extends upward to a height of 18 inches and is held taught by a rock counterweight. Hour lines and direction of sunrise and sunset for the equinoxes and solstices are given. Also has ... |
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Bumble Bee |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
389 |
| Horizontal dial approximately 10 feet in diameter. Made of concrete and granite. Commemorates Arizona Dept. of Transportation employees who were killed in the line of duty. |
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Carefree |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1 |
| A 90 ft. diameter horizontal dial with a large reflecting pool beneath the gnomon designed by architect Joe Wong and solar engineer John Yellott. The dial is constructed using a steel frame and covered in anodized copper. The hour markers are 4 ft. diameter concrete circles. The dial is designed to show solar time corrected for the time zone offse... |
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Casa Grande |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
457 |
| This horizontal dial is an engraved flagstone approximately 40 inches in diameter designed by John Carmichael. The monofilar gnomon is a stranded brass cable that extends upward to a height of 15 inches and is held taught by a rock counterweight. The engraved stone shows time marks to 5 minutes, corrected for longitude. Time and direction of sun... |
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Flagstaff |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
2 |
| Small bronze horizontal dial with a coarse chapter ring and Roman hour numerals. The gnomon is done as a gryphin. It was a gift from the observatory staff to Dr. Lowell. In a thank you note to his staff, Lowell stated, "Nothing could have pleased me more than that Sundial clothed with its mountain cloak, symbolic of when the sun always shines. ... |
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Flagstaff |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
313 |
| This cast iron horizontal dial is set in a 6 foot diameter limestone base 2 feet off the ground. The interior region of the dial face is a white tile mosaic. The gnomon has pictures of buffalo and a horned lizard done in relief. The edge of the dial is a cast iron ring, upon which are four cardinal points and hour markers from 5am to 7pm, like... |
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Gold Canyon |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
657 |
| Built as an Eagle Scout project, this 10 x 5 foot semicircular concrete and steel dial features a 3 foot tall figure of a coyote as the gnomon. The tip of the coyote's nose functions as a point-in-space gnomon. The figure is placed well forward, limiting the times and dates the nose-tip shadow will fall within the hour circle to about 9 am to 3 pm ... |
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Lake Havasu City |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
647 |
| An 8 x 9 foot horizontal dial of powder coat painted aluminum panels 1/4-inch thick assembled onto a concrete pad. Perimeter shows Arabic hour numerals 9-2 with 5-minute dots placed in arcs below the numerals. EOT correction is provided through four graphics on the dial face under the gnomon and sliding "T Square" indicators showing the corrections... |
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Mesa |
Arizona |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
801 |
| This concrete analemmatic dial is set is a larger concrete plaza located in a City park with an overall theme of Sonoran Desert environmental education and nature-based play.
The design of the dial is simple. The analemmatic path in the center of the dial have the names of the months etched into the concrete and etched Arabic numbers mark the ... |
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Mesa |
Arizona |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
302 |
| Very handsome equatorial dial of bronze and dark marble, approximately 50 in (127cm). diameter. 6am to 6pm in Roman lettering. Gnomon in the form of an arrow. Sits on a triangular base atop a square marble top 21in (53cm) on a pedestal 39 in. (1m) high. |
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Oro Valley |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
713 |
| A massive, 24 foot [7.3m] tall combination almost-vertical and calendrical dial facing southwest so that northeast bound traffic can easily view the dial. The 13 foot [4m] diameter vertical ring dial of welded, zinc-coated steel declines 45 deg west and reclines 12 deg from vertical. The 3 inch [7.6cm] diameter, 20 foot [6m] long polar-pointing gn... |
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Oro Valley |
Arizona |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
871 |
| This analemmatic sundial is painted on concrete. It is similar to John Carmichael's human sundial at Flandrau Planetarium at the University of Arizona. The orange background was painted by hand with acrylic paint on top of the blue acrylic court surface. Lettering and other markings were painted with Rustoleum spray enamel using stencils from Stenc... |
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Peoria |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
939 |
| This wonderful sculpture of a hummingbird serves as the gnomon for an 18 foot diameter horizontal sundial. The sundial sculpture was inspired by the beauty of the hummingbird with many species of them living and thriving in Arizona. The gnomon stands 7-feet tall with intricate aluminum frets welded together to give both depth and warmth to the humm... |
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Phoenix |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
7 |
| This large ground-level horizontal dial designed by Charles Keener. The dial is a circular concrete slab 62 in.(1.6m) in diameter and 8 in.(200cm) thick. The gnomon is 30 in. (762 cm) high, with the shadow casting style 55 in (1.4m) long. The dial has Roman numerals. Unfortunately, the 6AM and 8AM numerals are missing. The dial in a small square... |
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Phoenix |
Arizona |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
940 |
| On a trail of desert scrub is a cleared circular area, defined by a low pile of river stones as the border. Within is a titled analemmatic sundial about 30 feet across. The center walkway is made of sized adobe-red concrete tiles for each month. The abbreviation of each month is set into the tile. The matching hours on their elliptical arc are m... |
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Phoenix |
Arizona |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
772 |
| A dual-vertical cube dial with two 12 inch square dial plates declining 45? south of east and south of west. The east face shows hour lines for 6 AM to 12 PM; the west face shows hour lines for 12 PM to 6 PM. Roman numerals mark three hour lines on each face.
The other two faces of the cube hold plaques with EOT corrections and information about... |
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Phoenix |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
578 |
| A 10 foot diameter horizontal dial with steel gnomon. Live desert plants fill planters delineated by hour lines. |
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Prescott |
Arizona |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
585 |
| An 18x20 inch cast bronze vertical dial declining 22? west of south on the wall of a private home. Dial face includes a stylized sun and outline of Thumb Butte, a prominent local landmark. Dial can be viewed by first contacting the owner. |
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Sahuarita |
Arizona |
USA |
Obelisk or Vertical Gnomon |
623 |
| An unusual dial by John Carmichael using a gnomon tip to cast the shadow to indicate time. The dial face is poured concrete with inlaid metal longitude-corrected hour lines, and is nearly horizontal, inclining just 1.27 degrees for water drainage. It declines 89.28 degrees east of south. Bronze plaque has User Instructions and an Equation of Time ... |
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Sun City |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
8 |
| A monumental horizontal dial in a gravel rock garden. Gnomon is 22 feet high, 40 feet long built from a structural steel "I" beam 64 feet long. Gnomon is supported by three concrete triangular legs and is encased in concrete with four shadow-casting style edges. A circular concrete walkway under the gnomon has painted Roman numeral hour markers.
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Sunset Point Rest Area |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1050 |
| Sitting on a low dais is a beautiful red granite sundial. The gnomon is about 1.5m high and 20cm wide sitting in the center of a dial about 2.5m in diameter. Hour lines radiate from the gnomon foot to the edge of the dais, marking the hours from VI (AM) to VI (PM) local solar time. Inscriptions are on both the east and west side of the gnomon, a ... |
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Surprise |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
574 |
| A 108-inch diameter granite dial face with a 92-inch steel gnomon and nodus. Dial furniture includes a solar noon mark, sunrise and sunset points on the solstices and equinoxes, ecliptic date lines and an EOT graph. |
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Tempe |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
23 |
| A horizontal dial from Picture Rock Sandstone with 24k gold-plated inlaid brass fittings, 25 inches wide by 36 inches long, with gnomon 12.5 inches high. Gnomon is 1.5 inches thick. Total sundial weight 110 lbs.
Time is marked in 10 minute intervals. Has Equation of Time and moonlight reading time correction table. Has the time and direction of ... |
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Tempe |
Arizona |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
75 |
| An equatorial dial designed by R. Newton Mayall with a "curved triangular gnomon over a curved face approximately 12-in (.3m). wide. Tells the day of the year and standard time noon." Has a plaque explaining the Equation of Time. |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
4 |
| A bronze equatorial dial approximately 2 ft. in diameter designed by R. Newton Mayall. Mayall stated, "When I was asked to design the sundial in front of the Museum at Kitt Peak I was more than pleased, for it gave me a chance to work a semblance of astronomy into it. The design reflects the great telescope nearby, with its base and fork type mount... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Sun Alignment |
11 |
| A "Stonehenge" or sun circle dial designed by Chris Tanz, Susan Holman, Paul Edwards and with the help of Will Grundy and sponsored by the Pima County Flood Control and Transportation Dept. The structure uses a broken circle of walls to create designs made of light based on the movement of the sun. The circle, 50 feet in diameter with 8 foot walls... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
12 |
| This concrete and adobe brick horizontal dial is approximately 8 1/2 feet in diameter with a triangular gnomon 25 x 32 inches. This is a large, but very plain sundial except for the shiny chrome plated gnomon. It lacks numerals, but has hour points and shows the cardinal points. The dial is corrected for longitude. The pedestal is missing some b... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
14 |
| A 25 inch circular engraved horizontal dial in a large irregular stone. Surrounding the dial on the stone are zodiacal signs and a beautiful engraved drawing of the surrounding mountains. The designer, John Carmichael, calls these dials "horizontal string heliochronometers" since the gnomon is a brass cable held very straight under tension from a... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
711 |
| An 84x47 inch vertical dial declining 18? east of south on the outside wall of a private residence. Roman hour numerals are on 8 inch square hand-painted ceramic tiles. The gnomon and support are welded wrought iron painted black. A hand painted EOT graph is shown on a matching ceramic tile.
This is a historic home designed by southwestern archite... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
456 |
| This is a 10 x 10 foot south vertical wall dial with hour lines painted on the wall that are corrected for longitude. A unique feature of this dial is the time scale can be rotated forward or back slightly to compensate for the Equation of Time. However, because only the hours are marked, precise minute reading is difficult. Welded steel was use... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
464 |
| A horizontal sundial 45 x 61 inches with a monofilar brass cable gnomon and tension counterweight. This is the largest horizontal sundial in the US carved on a single piece of stone, taking two years to build. The dial has hour lines from 5am to 8pm, corrected for longitude. Each hour line has an analemma and in the lower right of the dial is a g... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Globe or Scaphe Dial |
735 |
| A fused silica glass spherical lens projects a solar image spot onto the inner surface of a spherical segment of glass with a frosted area inscribed with hour lines and Arabic hour numerals. Time is read from the bright spot of light on the frosted surface while standing under the dial. Dial is mounted atop a pipe pillar on the patio of the Visitor... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
465 |
| A simple square horizontal dial 20 x 20 inches carved in a 3 inch block of granite with a bronze gnomon. The dial has hour lines from 6am to 6pm for local solar time. No graph or table for longitude and Equation of Time corrections. Dial sits atop a 3 foot square pedestal. |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Sun Alignment |
1039 |
| The Vista Sun Wheel is 63 feet [19.2 m] outside diameter and 197 feet [60 m] in circumference. The Wheel is composed of 28 tons of broken limestone. The central cairn is 11 feet [3.4 m] in diameter and 3 feet [1 m] high. In the center is a post marked by a sandstone block about 30 inches [76 cm] tall. The floor of the Sun Wheel called for anothe... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
533 |
| A declining vertical stained glass "Gecko" sundial 58 x 20 inches consisting of 153 colored glass pieces and exterior rod gnomon with triangular base. Paintings on 11 glass pieces use vitreous kiln-fired enamels and stains. Dial and four adjacent panels consisting of 540 glass pieces are set in bay window overlooking succulent garden containing add... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
544 |
| Four vertical dials on the faces of a 100-inch tall redwood cupola on the roof of a private residence. The 21-inch dial faces are kiln-fired porcelain on steel; the bezels and gnomons are copper. The dials are longitude corrected for MST. Three dials have solar noon marks. |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
825 |
| This nearly 14-foot wide analemmatic human sundial replaces the previous sundial at the same location. The previous dial by an unknown designer had several design errors and was in poor condition. The Flandrau Planetarium replace it, choosing a sundial with a blue background and white hour numerals. Dial Markings include quarter hour marks, Solar ... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
566 |
| A vertical 44x92 inch dial declining 4.53? east of south painted on the rough textured stucco wall of a private home. The 2x4 inch tall conical horizontal gnomon is gold plated brass. The dial face is hand painted with elastomeric acrylic exterior house paint. The horizontal conical gnomon optimizes the nodus shadow at the location low latitude to ... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
579 |
| Located on a side street wall of a private home, this 4x6 foot due south vertical dial uses welded iron numerals and gnomon. Built in 1954, this is the oldest known sundial in Tucson. Designed using Mayall and Mayall's "Sundials" and described in detail in April, 1954 Home and Garden Magazine. |
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Vail |
Arizona |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
599 |
| A brass and concrete analemmatic dial set in the Butterfly Garden at Colossal Cave Mountain Park at 3415 feet elevation. The dial is 21 feet E-W across the hour markers. A hand-held rod gnomon 143 inches long includes a bubble level for positioning. There is a modest park use fee to view this dial. |
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