David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 08/10/2026Château Dauphin in Pontgibaud, France. 12th-17th century . A lovely garden, and a well decorated with a statue. 070
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 01/10/2026🔭 La lettre d’information mensuelle du LTE est parue : (Laboratoire temps espace-observatoire de Paris ). lettre-info-lte.obspm.fr/html/newslet... 052
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 28/09/2026🔭 🧪 #EduSky Après plusieurs années de travail collectif, le hors-série 15 du @cleaastro.bsky.social est sorti ! Une mine d'idées pour des maquettes & modélisations en astronomie. Enseignants, animateurices de club astro, CDI : ce n° est à commander sur le site : ventes.clea-astro.eu/home/211-hs-... 01912
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 27/09/2026Conférence de Julien Bobroff @julien-bobroff.bsky.social « je fabrique des atomes en direct ! ». Conférence de Roland Lehoucq « Pourquoi la nuit est-elle noire ? ». 🎢 🔭 #SLEDG 150
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 25/09/2026Festival « Sur les épaules des géants », au Havre. Conférence expérimentale « Physique étonnante » par E. Kierlik et JM Courty . Conférence « L’Odyssée des attosecondes » par Anne L’Huillier, Prix Nobel de physique 2023. 🎢 #SLEDG 2214
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 17/09/2026Je crois avoir trouvé l’origine des connexions à mon site depuis Wikipedia… Merci au contributeur/à la contributrice de la page « crépuscule » pour la référence à l’article de L’Astronomie paru en juillet dernier. 🔭 090
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 16/09/2026Of course they'll have plenty of opportunities to invite the Moon to the show. Bonus: the meeting is to take place near constellation Leo. It seems Mars & Jupiter will be ~4.3° apart at their closest, around March 31./Apr.1. 140
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 16/09/2026🔭 🧪 #EduSky Already looking forward to the Mars-Jupiter conjunction in 2027. Jupiter will be at opposition ~ Feb.12, Mars ~ March 22. Which means they both will be very easy to observe all night long in spring 2027. Here on Jan.24: 162
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 10/09/2026Look at these lovely vintage style #TeXLaTeX docs by Foad Farimani! Exactly what I needed! (without knowing it...) 062
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 09/09/2026From this #Python code... to this A1 poster. 🔭 #EduSky 1171
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 24/08/2026Le n21 (Automne 2026) de notre magazine vient de paraître et peut être téléchargé librement via www.cadrans-solaires.info/le-magazine/. Des articles à parcourir, des actualités, des jeux & énigmes à résoudre. À déguster sans modération par les spécialistes, les amateurs ou les simples curieux ! 🔭 3107
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 10/08/2026Si vous ne trouvez pas de lunettes, une astuce que je préfère encore à l'écumoire-sténopé : un petit miroir portatif, recouvert d'un papier découpé d'un trou de 2-4cm : on projette l'image du Soleil dans un coin sombre à quelques mètres ; on voit un superbe croissant solaire. Déjà testé. 🔭 #eclipse 172
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 10/08/2026Quand, dès le titre, tu sais que ça va aller mal… #histoire #history #navigation 140
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 09/08/2026🔭 For #SundialSunday, this vertical #sundial on Hôtel de la Bertaudière, where privateer Surcouf has lived. Saint-Malo, France. My calculated true solar time is 12:53 for this photo: not bad! This sundial is declining slightly south-east. 0212
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 07/08/2026With the horizon curve you can set the date and local time, and use it as a rotating sky map, to find the rising and setting times for the Sun and stars, time of meridian crossing of stars, and highest elevation. 3/4 140
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 07/08/2026Also comes in portrait version. PDF and svg files freely available on my website. Since the stereographic projection is found in planispheric astrolabes, I wanted to go further and add a moving part, to be pinned at the center of either map. 2/4 120
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 07/08/2026🔭 🧪 #EduSky This double skymap poster will soon decorate my appartment. Stereographic projection, with constellation lines, constellation boundaries, names of brightest stars, Sun's path, and brightest Messier objects. Powered by #Python. 1/4 4265
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 06/08/2026The coast in Britanny. I like polarizers... #sea #clouds #Moon 160
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 04/08/2026This is how you spend your holidays when you’re in gnomonics… All this because one 17th century instrument maker didn’t bother to explain how his scales were designed… Anyway, a versatile instrument for navigation, land surveying and particularly promising for astronomy. 🔭 🧪 #histsci 0221
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 29/07/2026Brass nocturnal with a horizontal sundial ~1734 A Hadley octant, brass & ebony, ~1775 A sextant, brass & ebony, ~1780 The Museum is set inside the 17th citadel of Port-Louis, Britanny. #astrohistory #histsci 2/2 0130
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 29/07/2026🔭 🧪 Ancient astronomical instruments at the Musée de la Marine, Port-Louis, France. Wooden persian 'astrolabe quadrant', 19th Brass Moroccan astrolabe, 19th Terrestrial compass, ~1640 One of the famous 'Bloud' diptych #sundial, ivory, ~1670 Equinoxial brass sundial, 1710 Astronomical ring, 18th 1/2 1387
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 28/07/2026I saw a copy last year in Paris, opened at the page of this lovely Moon volvelle. I could't figure out exactly how it was drawn and used... 🔭 #astrohistory 180
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 23/07/2026This cracked #sundial is waiting for sunlight in front of a bar… Seen in Carcans (33) France. 🔭 0100
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 19/07/2026À la lecture de la thèse de Marc Thomas (2014, Nantes) sur l’histoire des règles à calcul, il semblerait que celle trouvée en brocante à 8€ daterait de 1882-1900, quand la maison Tavernier-Gravet avait pour adresse 19 rue Mayet. #histsci 190
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 17/07/2026The hour lines are computed for latitude 42°N (Rome), but if you tilt the sundial you can make it work for higher latitudes. A list of cities with their latitudes is provided. A small graduated arrow helps find the correct angle. 4/6 150
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 17/07/2026Used separately, these sundials have to be oriented along north-south, but this one is self-oriented: rotate it until the shadows of both edges tell the same time. This is only possible because the 2 edges have different directions. The sundial then also indicates *true* north. 3/6 261
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 17/07/2026The octagon is a horizontal sundial, working with the shadow of the tilted edge of the triangle. The oval is an analemmatic sundial, working with the upright edge of the triangle. The user needs to set the date by sliding the octagon until its edge reaches the current date on the calendar. 2/5 150
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 17/07/2026🔭 🧪 #EduSky #astrohistory Don't mind me, I'm just dreaming I was one of Delure's wealthy clients in Paris, commissioning this lovely double #sundial in the early 18th c... 1/5🧵 1276
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 15/07/2026Wooden grasshopper on a table. Mandibles move with gears under the sculpture. 040
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 15/07/2026This exhibition is « Anima (ex) musica ». Created by « Tout/reste/a/faire ». More about their work : www.toutresteafaire.com 150
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 15/07/2026Insects made of pieces from music instruments. Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre (France). 1103
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 08/07/2026🔭 🧪 New meridian #sundial in Paris, at the Université Paris Cité (campus Grands Moulins). More about the project (in french): www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4sH... 0181
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 28/06/20262/3 If you compute the right ascension difference between a star and the Sun for a given date, you can guess the time of meridian crossing of this star. My script is adapted from Ronnie Bathoorn (github.com/bathoorn/sta...) This map comes in 2 styles: 'deepblue' or 'vintage'. 110
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 28/06/2026🔭 New sky map with ecliptic path. Right ascension increasing towards left, so constellations appear as in the sky. Ecliptic path shows the Sun's position every 5 days. Powered by #Python with the Skyfield ephemeris library. Adapted from R. Bathoorn. 1/3 🧵 2124
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 26/06/2026🔭 🧪 #EduSky Le n° de juillet/août de L'Astronomie est paru, avec entre autres un article sur les crépuscules. Merci à son autrice Marie-Claude Paskoff de m'avoir laissé une page pour présenter ma maquette en papier servant à déterminer la durée du crépuscule (et de la journée). 1/2 1165
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 21/06/2026The Sun follows a line from midnight (left) to noon (right) and back, on this day. When a line is above the horizontal diameter, it's daytime. At latitude 90°N, the line is horizontal (the Sun doesn't set). Vertical line: at the equator. Hour circles (dashed), altitude scale around the diagram. 2/3 140
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 21/06/2026🔭 AltZero studio sells astronomy-related posters. Among others, the June Solstice poster, a very beautiful diagram showing the Sun's path on the celestial sphere on June 21. Each orange line is for a given latitude, from -90 to 90° every 5°. 1/3 🧵 12512
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 20/06/2026They asked me to design a very simple paper sundial for their educational kit. institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fr/mhn/votre... Exhibition until April 11th 2027. 3/3 061
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 20/06/2026... including a rarissima Venetian navicula (probably only 5-7 extant copies!). 2/3 120
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr · 20/06/2026🔭 🧪 #EduSky At the Musée d'histoire des sciences of Geneva (Switzerland), the exhibition 'À l'ombre des découvertes' deals with scientific discoveries related to shadows. With #sundials inside. This museum hosts a nice collection of them... 1/3 171