Sundial 38
- Dial City: Bloomington
- Dial State/Province: Indiana
- Dial Country: USA
- Lat: 39° 11.050' N
- Dial Nr: 38
- Dial Type: Horizontal Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 86° 31.383' W
- Dial Owner: Indiana University
- Dial Designer: Robert Atkinson
- Dial Maker:
- Dial Date: 1979
- Location:
- Indiana University Campus, in front of Assembly Hall of the Baseball Arena
- Description:
- A small horizontal dial, about 18 inches in diameter. The dial plate is tilted 2 deg to the horizon to allow water run-off. However, more unusual is the base that contains a hand crank connected to a scalloped drum that tilts the entire dial to adjust for the Equation of Time. The drum is rotated to the current date and the drum edge pushes a cam that tilts the plane of the horizontal face so that standard time is indicated to within half a minute. The dial is actually mounted on an equatorial axis. Since 1979 the dial has gone into a state of disrepair and is overgrown by bushes. In July 2011 it is reported that the adjusting knob no longer works to tilt the dial.
- Other References:
- Sky & Telescope, Feb 1979, p.138-40.
Last Update:
2020-08-02 19:30