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Sabanski Paper Sundials

SabanskiUniversalSundialsSabanskiPaperSundialsCarl Sabanski is a sundial enthusiast who has made paper cut-out sundial kits that can be tailored to your latitude in either the Northern or Southern hemisphere. He presents a wide variety of sundials, all of which will tell accurate local solar time. His dials come in many types: Equatorial, Equatorial Ring, and Gnomon-less Equatorial Sundials, Horizontal Sundials, Polar and Cycloid Polar Sundials, Cross and Star Sundials, Analemmatic Sundials, a fantastic sundial made from a CD disk and a Digital Equatorial Sundial based on the patent of Thew. There are Ring Dials, a Globe Dial based on the dial of Thomas Jefferson, and much, much moret source simulated the sun.

 

Each of these sundials is illustrated with a 3-dimensional drawings  to show assemblyh and use.  PDF files at his site present the detailed sundial design that can be cut or folded specifically for your latitude. Pick up your sundial at: https://www.mysundial.ca/sdu/sdu_sundial_kits.html

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Sundial Atlas Paper Sundials

nass_news_2013_mar_SundialAtlasPaperdialsNeed a small sundial for your display or science project?  Want to show how different sundials cast shadows?  Need a simple cut-out science exercise for your students?  Fabio Savian of Milan Italy has the solution. 

For a number of years he has managed the Sundial Atlas website, ever increasing the number of sundial photos from around the world.  Over the last several years he has worked very hard to create the gnomolab that includes a solar compass map of the earth, cloud software for creating analemmatic (human shadow) sundials, and a section for making paper sundials to your specification.  The analemmatic dial measurements and papger dial designs are created as download PDF files.  Four of those dials were created by the North American Sundial Society.  Enjoy. Sundial Atlas Paper Sundials

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Sundials in Grammar School

Students assemble sundialsAvid dialist and former The Grammar School teacher and head of the Putney, VT school, Mac Oglesby guides 6th graders to plan and construct their own working sundials. Oglesby's students learned how to correctly position their dials to display the accurate time throughout the year.

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pdfNASS-SpiderSunDial.pdf
pptNASS-SpiderSundial.ppt
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Your Own Sundial

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To draw your sundial below, convert your latitude into a decimal number for entry. Example: 38° 45' N would be entered as 38.75  Then click the draw button to see the resulting angles for your dial.

When your sundial is drawn, print out the webpage and paste the dial face onto thin cardboard such as from an old cereal box.  Fold the gnomon in half and paste it together.  Be careful to first fold out the bottom tabs.  Apply paste to the tabs and stick onto the base.  Make sure that the high end of the gnomon face toward noon ( XII ).

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