Sundial for Bloemfontein

Note that the "squares" on the diagram must look square, ie one unit of length horizontally must equal one unit of length vertically.

The data used to create this sundial are listed below, if you want to make your own large "walk-on" sundial. The columns are:

• Time: time at each marker on the timeline.
• Xtime: X (horizontal) offset from 0.0 (centre of graph) of each time marker.
• Ytime: Y (vertical) offset from 0.0 (centre of graph) of each time marker.
• Date: Date of each marker on the date line and analemma ("8")
• Xan: X (horizontal) offset from 0.0 (centre of graph) of each date marker on the analemma.
• Yan: Y (vertical) offset from 0.0 (centre of graph) of each date marker on the analemma; this is equal to the Y offset for the dateline. The X values for the dateline are 0.0.
• Teqn: The offsets of time correction scale at the foot of the analemma, in minutes. -15 means the Sun is 15 minutes late (e.g. in February), so 15 minutes must be added to the time read from the shadow crossing the timeline when standing on the dateline. +15 means the Sun is 15 minutes early (e.g. in early November), so 15 minutes must be subtracted from the time read from the shadow crossing the timeline when standing on the dateline.
• XTeqn: X (horizontal) offset from 0.0 of the time correction at the foot of the analemma. The Y value is set to place it conveniently below the analemma.

	Bloemfontein sundial data

 Time       Xtime       Ytime        date         Xan         Yan        Teqn       XTeqn
05h00       2.367      -0.392       Jan01      -0.040       0.930      -15.00      -0.164
05h30       2.452      -0.238       Jan15      -0.101       0.849      -10.00      -0.109
06h00       2.495      -0.081       Feb01      -0.149       0.682       -5.00      -0.055
06h30       2.495       0.079       Feb15      -0.154       0.500        0.00       0.000
07h00       2.452       0.236       Mar01      -0.135       0.300        5.00       0.055
07h30       2.368       0.390       Mar15      -0.099       0.092       10.00       0.109
08h00       2.243       0.537       Apr01      -0.044      -0.164       15.00       0.164
08h30       2.080       0.675       Apr15      -0.001      -0.366                        
09h00       1.881       0.802       May01       0.033      -0.581                        
09h30       1.650       0.914       May15       0.040      -0.739                        
10h00       1.391       1.011       Jun01       0.025      -0.881                        
10h30       1.108       1.091       Jun15      -0.004      -0.939                        
11h00       0.806       1.152       Jul01      -0.039      -0.934                        
11h30       0.490       1.194       Jul15      -0.065      -0.866                        
12h00       0.166       1.214       Aug01      -0.067      -0.717                        
12h30      -0.161       1.215       Aug15      -0.050      -0.542                        
13h00      -0.486       1.194       Sep01       0.000      -0.326                        
13h30      -0.802       1.153       Sep15       0.051      -0.125                        
14h00      -1.104       1.092       Oct01       0.112       0.113                        
14h30      -1.387       1.013       Oct15       0.154       0.317                        
15h00      -1.647       0.916       Nov01       0.179       0.554                        
15h30      -1.878       0.803       Nov15       0.169       0.723                        
16h00      -2.077       0.677       Dec01       0.119       0.870                        
16h30      -2.241       0.539       Dec15       0.055       0.937                        
17h00      -2.367       0.392                  -0.040       0.930                        
17h30      -2.452       0.238                                                            
18h00      -2.495       0.081                                                            
18h30      -2.495      -0.079                                                            
19h00      -2.452      -0.236