Sun-shot

Using sun-shots from the Kew pier, its true azimuth was determined in June 1957.

At noon he was able to make his first sun-shot in all those weeks of sailing.

Even if I had an accurate time, which I have tried hard to get with no success, I could not take a sun-shot because of the fog.

The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned.

To divert me I had only the Times, an article I was editing, and my own reflection, pensive and sleepy, framed in the sun-shot window.

“You set right down now, baby,” he said, and he made a pretence of having something to do inside the mill, while June watched the creaking old wheel dropping the sun-shot sparkling water into the swift sluice, but hardly seeing it at all.