DeoxyriboNucleicAcid Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 •Does anyone know of a good website that has info on Nocturnals, and even a template for a nocturnal. •Does anyone know of a better, or good way of calculating time other than a Nocturnal, at night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atinymonkey Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 Um, should you not be migrating towards the homework help forum? Plus, in what context are you using the term nocturnal? Nocturnal what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 IF (big IF) I understand you correctly, you want some sort of time peice that works at night? the only one that I`m aware of (other than the blatantly obvious clocks) Is a callibrated pendulum system, the ideal pendum, will swing in a straight line constantly, as the earth rotates the marking on the floor that the pendulum swing over will move with the earth, making 1 rotation every 24 hours. that would be another simple way that anyone could build to give a reasonable idea of the time at night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeoxyriboNucleicAcid Posted November 1, 2003 Author Share Posted November 1, 2003 ah forget it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted November 2, 2003 Share Posted November 2, 2003 YT2095 said in post #3 : the only one that I`m aware of (other than the blatantly obvious clocks) Is a callibrated pendulum system, the ideal pendum, will swing in a straight line constantly, as the earth rotates the marking on the floor that the pendulum swing over will move with the earth, making 1 rotation every 24 hours. that would be another simple way that anyone could build to give a reasonable idea of the time at night It's only 24 hours at the poles (actually 23 hours 56 min). You have to multiply 24 by sin(latitude) to the the period for a Foucalt pendulum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted November 2, 2003 Share Posted November 2, 2003 Yup, perfectly true, I just kept it simple for the ideas sake, but it seems he may have something better or given up on the idea? I hope it`s the 1`st one and he shares, coz I`m at a loss here for other ideas to tell time at night, other than callibrated candles. I`m sure he`ll figure something though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeoxyriboNucleicAcid Posted November 2, 2003 Author Share Posted November 2, 2003 I found a good book in the library about nocturnals an building them, it gave me just about everything i needed to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aman Posted November 2, 2003 Share Posted November 2, 2003 When you get through the book, could you post a little synopsis here for those of us following your train of thought. It's been interesting. Just aman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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