Latitude and longitude of Sundial
- Nearby Bladensburg, United States
Satellite map of Sundial
A sundial is a device that tells the time of day by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style onto a surface marked with lines indicating the hours of the day. The style is the time-telling edge of the gnomon, often a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge. As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow-edge aligns with different hour-lines. Those sundials that directly measure the sun's hour-angle by the shadow of an edge must have that edge parallel to the axis of the Earth's rotation to tell the correct time throughout the year. The style's angle from the horizontal will thus equal the sundial's geographical latitude.
Latitude: 38° 59' 9.13" N
Longitude: -76° 56' 31.47" W
Nearest city to this article: College Park, Maryland
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