Solar transit at Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri 2008

Meridian transit of the sun in a church in Rome on Janaury 19th and 20th, 2008 (11:21 GMT).
The meridian was build in 1703 CE by Francesco Bianchini for pope Clement XI. The sun light peeps in this church through a small hole at a height of 20.5 meters.

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Science & Technology

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• meridian
• transit
• rome

[webreijs]

@skypopear Don't understand; why would it stop in 2012? The point where the sun crosses the time line depends on the max. declinations, it changes somewhat, but would not concern about that for an few thousand years.

[skypopear]

@webreijs Does it stop at 2012? Not this video. I mean, does the timeline stop at 2012 or whenever? Sometimes they have to ran out of space to make stuff on the ground. 4x thing, I thought it means 4x zoom. Thanks for clearing it up.

[webreijs]

@skypopear The timeline (meridian) is on the ground indeed (see the pans fo the camera over the line and see the people sititing near it). One can tell from the position of where the sun light crosses the line what time of the year it is. It does not stop (as long as the sun gets up;-). As the text on the video says, it runs 4 times faster than reality.

[skypopear]

Does anybody know the answer? Is that the timeline on the ground? Does it tell you the year? What year does it stop? When I watched the lighthole moves from one side to other so fast, I was like that can't be right, then I realized you put it in fast forward, you should put that in the description.

[skypopear]

@VReijs Is that the timeline on the ground? Does it tell you the year? What year does it stop? When I watched the lighthole moves from one side to other so fast, I was like that can't be right, then I realized you put it in fast forward, you should put that in the description.

[habakkuk13]

Thank you very much for this video.

I didn´t had enough time to record!!.

This is just what i was looking for.