Sundial 432
- Dial City: Fairfax
- Dial State/Province: Virginia
- Dial Country: USA
- Lat: 38° 49.710' N
- Dial Nr: 432
- Dial Type: Equatorial Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 77° 17.261' W
- Dial Owner: Fairfax Memorial Park
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- Location:
- Garden of Time at the Fairfax Memorial Park 9900 Braddock Road, Fairfax, VA 22032 one mile east of George Mason University.
- Description:
- This bronze equatorial dial is about four feet in diameter with a 6 inch equatorial band containing raised Roman hour numbers from 5am to 7pm. The band is graduated every ten minutes and is offset by approximately 8 minutes to read Eastern Apparent Time. The gnomon is a simple arrow without nodus and the dial does not have an analemma. The octagonal dial base is made of brown marble panels approximately 5 feet high with a smaller octagon on top approximately 1 foot high that supports the dial. Each octagon is capped with thick granite. The base is a mausoleum, with alternate octagonal sides each containing 8 crypts.
Last Update:
2019-02-09 20:22