Sundial 408
- Dial City: Macedon
- Dial State/Province: New York
- Dial Country: USA
- Lat: 43° 07.104' N
- Dial Nr: 408
- Dial Type: Sun Alignment
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 77° 18.883' W
- Dial Owner: Longacre Farms
- Dial Designer: Ian Marshal, Robert Kellogg, Hal Brandmaier
- Dial Maker: Doug and Joan Allen of Long Acre Farms
- Dial Date: July 2000
- Location:
- Cornfield east of Rochester, near Macedon NY. Follow 31 east to Canandaigua Rd. North about 4 miles to Eddy Road. One mile east to Long Acre Farms.
- Description:
- A cornfield maze for the summer of 2000 at Long Acre Farms. Theme called "Lost in Time" features a number of sundials. The 400 x 500 foot cornfield maze, called the "largest living sundial", is in the form of a smiling sun with 12 corn hedge "rays" from 8 am to 6 pm that align in azimuth to the hour and half hour for Labor Day, 2000. Within each hedge is a vertical pole holding an "Eye of Kala" (an annulus) 12 feet above the ground that casts a spot of light across a hedge clearing at the appointed time to a sign at ground level. At the center of the maze is a horizontal dial with a 12-foot gnomon. This gnomon forms part of the smiling sun's nose when seen from the air. Just outside the corn hinge is an analemmatic sundial for visitors to tell time before going through the hinge. In the hinge, visitors are given a small altitude card dial that tells Eastern Daylight Time from June - Oct. Admission fee.
- Other References:
- Long Acre Farms makes a corn maze each year. In 2000 it was a sundial.
Last Update:
2019-02-10 13:22