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November 07, 2007

More India: Jaipur's Jantar Mantar (Observatory)

There's not much text I can throw in here to really explain or improve the photos, so here's an eruption of photos from an astronomical/logical site in Jaipur:


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Each of these "small" tools was aligned for its specific zodiac, you can guess ours?

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This is a REALLY LARGE SUNDIAL:
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This was a fancy star chart/calendar:
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And a planet chart:
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This smaller sundial could get within 20 seconds accuracy, the large one had 2 second accuracy:
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Posted by griffjon at November 7, 2007 03:41 PM

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