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- Page 1 O R B I S S O L A R I S...
- Page 2 Cover picture: ORBIS SOLARIS U for New York City with EDT/EST dial and birthday line Imprint: edition 2024 HELIOS Sundials Owner: Dr.-Ing. Carlo Heller Begasweg 3 D - 65195 Wiesbaden Phone: +49 - (0)611 - 185 11 06 E-Mail: email@helios-sundials.com...
- Page 3 Setting up the sundial..... Alignment of the ORBIS SOLARIS D ...
- Page 4 - that is the world circle casts a shadow on the dial of a conven- (lat. orbis) shown on the ORBIS SOLARIS tional horizontal sundial. The world map is sundial. a gnomonic map projection with the gno-...
- Page 5 Solar time and zone time ∞ The dark blue lines on the two sundials in horizon Gnomon Figure 1, which intersect at the geographic North Pole of the world map, are the hour Location lines of solar time, officially known as Local Apparent Time (LAT).
- Page 6 Place the dial ring in the intended location. difference is called the equation of time. Then place the supplied bubble level on On the ORBIS SOLARIS it is possible to read it and align it horizontally using the three the zone time (e. g. CET/CEST) directly.
- Page 7 A time line is drawn on the dial every 15 If you have an ORBIS SOLARIS U calcu- minutes. Take the next time that is divisible lated for the location, you can skip the by 15, for example 9:45 a.m.
- Page 8 The acrylic glass body protects the the longitude for which the sundial was dial from sunlight. The acrylic glass should calculated. For the ORBIS SOLARIS D this is only be cleaned with water or alcohol-free the longitude 10°E, for the ORBIS SOLARIS cleaning agents and a soft cloth.
- Page 9 Fig. 5: Reading off the ORBIS SOLARIS Sunrise Pinhole Sunset 51°N 10°E Noon line May 1 Senegal 3 p.m. CEST Equator...
- Page 10 Göttingen Brandenburg Hagen Braunschweig Halle/Saale Bremen Hamburg Bremerhaven Hamm Chemnitz Hannover Cottbus 14.4 Heidelberg Darmstadt Heilbronn Dessau Herne Dortmund Hildesheim Dresden 12.4 Ingolstadt Duisburg 10.7 Iserlohn Düsseldorf 10.7 Jena Erfurt Kaiserslautern Erlangen Karlsruhe Table: ORBIS SOLARIS D setting data [10]...
- Page 11 Town Town Kassel Paderborn Kiel Pforzheim Koblenz Potsdam 10.1 Köln 10.1 Recklinghausen Krefeld 11.4 Regensburg Leipzig Remscheid Leverkusen 10.0 Reutlingen Lübeck Rostock 12.4 Ludwigshafen am Rhein Saarbrücken 10.1 10.0 Magdeburg Salzgitter Mainz Schwerin Mannheim Siegen Moers 11.2 Solingen Mönchengladbach 11.9 Stuttgart Mülheim an der Ruhr 10.4...
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