Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness
A Fairfax County Public Schools Planetarium

The Denver, CO Equatorial Sundial
Cranmer Park (formerly known as Mountainview Park)
39° 71.923' N latitude, 104° 93.472' W longitude

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Upper dial face, facing south.		 No. 2
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Lower dial face, facing north.
No. 3
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Side view, facing west.		 No. 4
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Close-up side view, facing east.
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Facing almost due west.		 No. 6
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Facing northwest.
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Local solar noon (Sun transit).		 No. 8
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Lower dial face at 1:00 p.m. MDT.
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Garmin GPSmap 76S.		 No. 10
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Close-up, GPS receiver.
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Commemorative plaque, sundial.		 No. 12
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Close-up of text, Equation of Time graph.
No. 13
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Stephen A. Ionides, sundial designer.		 No. 14
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"Ancient Chinese type Sun dial."
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Lower dial face, facing north-northwest.		 No. 16
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Lower dial face, facing N-NE.
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North entrance to Cranmer Park.		 No. 18
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Denver, CO, a.k.a. the "Mile High City."
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Plaque, mountain view panorama.		 No. 20
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Looking north along the panorama.
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Mount Evans, W-SW of Cranmer Park.		 No. 22
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James Peak, near the northern end of panorama.
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Sun setting over the mountains.		 No. 24
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Sunset.

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© Copyright 2003-2008 Walter Sanford. All rights reserved.
Photographs courtesy John Paverd (a.k.a., "acrux"), Denver, CO. 
Thumbnail images prepared using photoweb v3.0 by Phil Wherry & Eric Johnston.
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