How it works taking a noon sight

One summer’s evening in the days before internet weather forecasting, I was deeply involved in the after-race ‘do’ following a Solent Old Gaffers event. In the 1970s these regattas drew entrants large

What time is it? It’s later than you think. Tempus fugit. Or, as the sundial inscription so accurately but perhaps more optimistically explains: “I only count the sunny hours.” You know full well that

NEVER STOP SAILING!

How the world’s clocks and geographic coordinates came to be set by a small borough of London

A few years ago, we bought my father a sundial. It was a decent 18th-century style reproduction in lead – something he had wanted for a very long time – and then, inevitably, he asked me to help him s

◀ Tuesday 2 The Lunar X and V clair-obscur effects can be seen on this evening’s Moon. Your best view will be around 23:41 BST (22:41 UT). Thursday 4 This morning, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn’s glo