Category: Videos
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March 2026 Equinox : Capturing the Moment
The March 2026 Equinox was met with tremendous anticipation at the home of the Woodland Polar Sundial. The Equinox is the great equalizer for our planet, since sunrise occurs almost due east and sunset almost due west, and the shadow of the tip of any perpendicular pole will track along a straight line throughout the…
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How to Read the Dial
Like a clock that strikes only on the hour, the dial is designed to show standard clock time on the hour. Analemmas define the course of the sun’s shadow each daylight hour over the course of the year. When the shadow of the tip of the gnomon is exactly underneath the analemma, the time corresponds to the…
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Videos of the Sundial
Time-lapse Videos of the Sundial Winter Solstice, December 21, 2023, by Mark Jones, Jones Visual Arts Group The shadow tracks its most northerly path. Solar noon occurs at 12:05 PM PST. Carpenter Bee sits on dial from Noon to 1 PM _________________________________________________________________________________ Declination Line, August 23, 2023 Jones Visual Arts Group The shadow tracks the…
Woodland Polar Sundial 