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'tis true. There's not really a sane one amongst us and we all have our little 'ways'. N.B. Those that claim to be sane are possibly the maddest.

Welcome to TMA mathrocker.

I imagine quite a number of us will be around Callinish over the couple of months of the stndstill. Max kudos goes to the first (non camera phone) photi posted though with all the others (including me because I can't have my friend's house on Lewis 'til later in the year) coming in a weak second best.

Here's a message that came from Victor about this stuff

"Hello all of you,

In October this year a near lunar northern standstill limit event will
happen (on Oct. 22). I am planning myself to go to Calanais I and III,
where I am preparing a web cam to broadcast the coming years these events
(http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/callanish ).

As Irish interested people may know from looking or from the books of
Brennan; there is a possible direction that could be close to the
northern standstill limit set event: Mount A and Newgrange.
Because these two monuments are so close to each other, the chance that
indeed this can happen is big.

So it would be nice if people would be able to witness this event in the
Boyne Valley. I think there are two location to witness this from:
. from mount A (or near it) looking towards Newgrange.
. from a more distant location where Mount A is say half way Newgrange
and this location. There is a good point where it can be witness (see
the picture I took from the location:
http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/pic/newgrangemoundA.jpg
. in both instances one needs access to the properties.

Who thinks he/she has time to do this on Oct. 22th, 2005 around 13:43
GMT (so it is still light and a quarter moon):
http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/eng/majorstandstillsapII.htm
and
http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/eng/majorstandstills.htm

Let me know who is interested, so that I can provide more information.

Perhaps there are other monument direction that could be aligned to
lunar northern standstill event, so this is a moment.

More opportunities will happen as can be seen in the above links.

All the best,


Victor

P.S. For people who are not yet member of the archaeocosmology list
please subscribe, that e-group is used as a medium to exchange
ideas/thoughts/results on the lunar standstill limit events in the
coming years (all over the world):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/archaeocosmology/ "