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Fairfield
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Sundial: 1124
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| State/Province: Ohio |
Country: USA |
| Dial Type: Horizontal Dial |
Condition: Excellent |
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Latitude and Longitude: |
39° 20.053' N 84° 33.907' W |
| Location: |
- Dial is in the center of Village Green Park, across the street from Fairfield Lane Library, 1485 Corydale Drive, Fairfield, OH 45014
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| Description: |
- A compound bronze horizontal dial approximately 24in (61cm) in diameter with a second meridian transit gnomon hole to cast a beam of light onto a noon analemma. The outer chapter ring shows Standard Time with Roman numerals, 1 hour marks. The inner chapter ring show Daylight Savings Time in Arabic numerals with 15 minute marks. Note that like most horizontal dials standard/daylight time is local solar time, measuring time as it crosses the meridian. The noon analemma uses holidays and seasons as date marks. The analemma is offset from the dial's N-S meridian, showing the sun's illumination on the analemma curve using local Daylight Savings Time. Fairfield Ohio, even at 84° W is on Eastern Time, such that to tell civil time, one needs to add 38 minutes to shadow time. If one looks at the plaque that contains a graph of the Equation of Time, that 38 minutes is included. If the user disregards the noon dial, but applies the the EoT graph to the shadow time of the main horizontal dial, the result is precise civil time.
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General Information: | Inscription: | - Owner: City of Fairfield, Ohio
| - The dial face inscribed: Dedicated to the memory of Joseph B Bayer.
Surrounding the dial are five plaques.
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Last Revised: 2025-06-08 18:39
