Patent ID: 7529156
Filing Date: 2009-05-05
Classification: G04B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus configured to display a waxing and waning hieroglyph that twice each day of the rising and setting of an astronomical body journeys across a hieroglyphic sky around a hieroglyph earth in order to represent and display passages of local day and night of said astronomical body, for any given longitude and latitude, wherein the rates of change of each day's hourly passing and each night's hourly passing are adjusted according to the times of local rise and local set of said astronomical body for a given latitude and longitude location and that date, so that each day consists of twelve natural day hours and each night consists of twelve natural night hours, wherein a natural day hour is one twelfth of the time between that day's time of local rise and local set of said astronomical body, and a natural night hour is one twelfth of the time between that night's time of local set and the next day's time of local rise of said astronomical body.