Measuring the position of the center of the Sun at the Clementine Gnomon   of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
  The Clementine Gnomon in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome has been realized in 1702 with the aim to measure the variation of the obliquity of the Earth axis along the forthcoming centuries. Since then the church and the instrument undergone several restorations and the original conditions of the pinhole changed. The measurements of the position of the image in the days before and of the 2011 winter solstice with respect to the original markers compared with the ephemerides gives us the North-South correction for the position of the pinhole to be restored. 
Costantino Sigismondi
astro-ph.IM astro-ph.SR