Sundial Resources and Bibliography

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Online resources

Sundials in Utah and around the World

• Blateyron, François. 2006. Sundials realized by Shadows users. Webpage. (Examples of numerous modern European sundials, including some made by school children.) << http://perso.orange.fr/blateyron/sundials/shadowspro/gb/users.htm accessed 6/2006
• North American Sundial Society. 2006. Registry of North American Sundials. Website. << http://sundials.org/registry/ >> accessed 6/2006
• British Sundial Society. 2006. Dials of Distinction. In The British Sundial Society Homepage. Website. (Photographs of English sundials). << http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/ >> accessed 6/2006
• British Sundial Society. 2006. Sundials on the Internet. Website. (Links to pictures of sundials around the world) << http://www.sundials.co.uk/ accessed 6/2006
• Perless, Robert. 2004. The Utah Sundagger. Website. (A Utah outdoor sculpture sundial at Utah Valley State College, Heber, Utah.) << http://www.perless.com/sundagger.html accessed 6/2006
• Center for Land Use Interpretation. Nancy Holt's 1976 Utah Sun Tunnels. Website. (A Utah outdoor sculpture sundial 40 miles northwest of Wendover, Utah.) << http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/UT3126/ accessed 6/2006
• NASA. 2006. Hovenweep Holly Group House Sundagger (Photo). In NASA. 2005. Earth-Sun Day Image Gallery << http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2005/multimedia/gal_007.htm accessed 6/2006

Primers on sundials

• Sabanski, Carl. 2006. The Sundial Primer . << http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/tsp.html accessed 6/2006
• Stern, David P. 2005. The Path of the Sun. Sec. 2 in From Stargazers to Starships. Website. (Includes teacher lesson plans on the Sun, the seasons and sundials.) << http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Secliptc.htm accessed 6/2006
• Univ. of Kent, England. 2006. Moon dial << http://www.btinternet.com/~noahshouse/solarcast/moondial.htm accessed 6/2006
• Urschel, Bob. 2006. Analemma. Website. << http://www.analemma.com/Pages/framesPage.html accessed 6/2006
• Wikipedia. 2006. Sundials. << http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial accessed 6/2006

Making your own sundial

• Blateyron, François. 2006. Shadows: The best software to design sundials. Website and Freeware. << http://perso.orange.fr/blateyron/sundials/shadowspro/gb/ accessed 6/2006
• Derbyshire Sundials. 2006. Horizontal Sundial Shadow Angle Calculator. Web applet. (Computes the angle of hour lines needed to layout a horizontal sundial with a triangular gnomon.) << http://www.sundials.uklinux.net/hd_calc.htm accessed 6/2006
• Sabanski, Carl. 2006. Long-Hand Sundials . In The Sundial Primer . << http://www.mysundial.ca/sdu/sdu_long_hand_sundials.html accessed 6/2006
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 2006. Sun Track Kit (Set of 10, Catalogue KT240). << Link at http://www.astrosociety.org/ accessed 6/2006
• Kellogg, Robert L. (NASS). 200_. Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet: Horizontal_Dial.xls. Spreadsheet. (Calculates a horizontal dial plate for a location.) At the Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness. << http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/sundials/Horizontal_Dial.xls accessed 6/2006
• Waugh, Albert, Edmund. 1973. The Horizontal Sundial. Chapter 5 in Sundials: Their Theory and Construction. Dover. ISBN: 0486229475 pp. 40, 43-44 (Instructions for a modern horizontal sundial for 40° North latitude that can be made from construction paper in less than an hour. See Appendix 10 for a table of the unequal angles used to lay out the hour lines on the dial plate.)
• Morrison, James (Janus, Inc.) 2006. The Personal Astrolabe Website. (Inexpensive commercial retailer of personalized cardboard scientific astrolabes used in East-coast secondary schools. Highly recommended, along with James Evan's Practice of Ancient Astronomy, to continue Sun-Earth relationship studies.) << http://www.astrolabes.org/ >> accessed 6/2006

Local Utah sun parties

• Salt Lake Astronomical Society. Events calendar << http://www.slas.us/ >> accessed 12/2006.
• Clarke Planetarium, Salt Lake City Utah. << http://www.clarkplanetarium.org/ >> accessed 6/2006.
• Ott Planetarium, Weber State University. Events calendar << http://community.weber.edu/planetarium/ >> accessed 6/2006.
• Ogden Astronomical Society. << http://www.ogdenastronomy.com/ accessed 12/2006.
• Utah Valley Astronomical Association. << http://www.uvaa.org/index.html accessed 6/2006.

Teacher-Parent Resources for Sun dial related activities K-8

• NASA. 2006. Sun-Earth Day Homepage << http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/index.php >>
• Exploratorium. 2006. Chaco Canyon: Observation Teacher's Guide << http://www.exploratorium.edu/ancientobs/chaco/HTML/teacher.html >>.
• Smithsonian Instit. 1998. Eye on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Hands on Activities for Kids << http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/the_book/index.html >>
• Musser, G. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific) 1995. To Every Season There is a Reason << http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/29/29.html >> (Activity guide on the seasons).
• PlanetQuest. 2005. PlanetQuest: The History of Astronomy - The Sun Dagger at Chaco Canyon << http://www.planetquest.org/learn/sundagger.html >>
• Exploratorium. 1998. Making a Sun clock << http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/sunclock.html >>
• Stern, David P. 2005. Building a Sundial. Sec. 2a in From Stargazers to Starships. Website. (Includes teacher lesson plans on the Sun, the seasons and sundials.) << http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sundial.htm accessed 6/2006
• Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness (Fairfax County Public Schools Planetarium). 2006. Me and My Shadow: Making the Sun-Earth Connection. Website. (Links to numerous construction resources) << http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/sundials/shadows.html accessed 6/2006

Ephemeris and Time

• TerraServer USA. 2006. Search TerraServer. Web application. (Find your latitude and longitude from your street address.) << http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/AdvFind.aspx accessed 6/2006
• Spot-On Sundials. 2006. Print your solar noon calendar. Web applet. (Prints a reference table of standard (watch) times of solar noon on each day for a location for one-year.) << http://www.solar-noon.com/ accessed 6/2006
• Univ. of Oregon Solar Radiation Monitoring Laboratory. 2006. Sun Position Calculator Web applet. (Returns the Sun altitude and azimuth for your location and selected date.) << http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SolarPositionCalculator.html accessed 6/2006
• Astronomical Applications Dept., United States Naval Observatory. 2006. Data Services. Webpage. << http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/ accessed 6/2006
• Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day (including the standard (watch) time of the Sun's transit - or local solar noon).
• Table of Sunrise/Sunset, Moonrise/Moonset, or Twilight Times for an Entire Year.
• Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year.
• Altitude and Azimuth of the Sun or Moon During One Day.
• Earth's Seasons - Equinoxes, Solstices, Perihelion, and Aphelion 1992-2020.
• Univ. of Oregon Solar Radiation Monitoring Laboratory. 2006. Sun path chart program Web applet. (Makes a chart showing the Sun's altitude and azimuth for one year at your location.) << http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SunChartProgram.html accessed 6/2006
• NASA. 2006. Horizons Web Applet. (Detailed ephemeris for any solar system object.) << http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi accessed 6/2006

Bibliography

Sun dials

• Evans, James. 1998. The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy. Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN: 0195095391
• Waugh, Albert, Edmund. 1973. Sundials: Their Theory and Construction. Dover. ISBN: 0486229475
• Rohr, Rene R.J. 1996. Sundials: History, Theory, and Practice. Dover. ISBN: 0486291391
• Stoneman, Milton. 1982. Easy-to-Make Wooden Sundials. Dover. ISBN: 0486241416
• Mayall, R. Newton. 2000. Sundials: Their Construction and Use. Dover. ISBN: 048641146X
• The Solstice Project. 2006. Homepage. (Founded by Anna Sofaer, discoverer of the Fajada Butte sundial to study and conserve astronomical resources at Chaco Canyon.) << http://www.solsticeproject.org/ >>

Astronomical math

• Duffet-Smith, P. 1988 (3ed). Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator. Cambridge Press. << 1988QB62.5.D83..... >>
• Montenbruck, O. & Pfleger, T. 2002. 4ed. Astronomy on the Personal Computer. Springer. ISBN 3-540-67221-4 << ttp://www.springer.com/ >>
• Meeus, J. 1998. 2ed. Astronomical Algorithms. Willmann-Bell. ISBN 0-943396-61-1 << http://www.willbell.com/ >>

Asteroid Landed Softly Sundial

• Salt Lake City Corp. 1993. Gallivan Center Handout on the Asteriod Landed Softly Sundial
• Staker, Brian. July 11, 2002. People's court. Arts and Entertainment Column. Salt Lake City Weekly. << http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2002/arts_2002-07-11.cfm accessed 6/2006 >>

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