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FourWinds Jun 21, 2006 16:26:05

Replying to Rhiannon

The moon skims Sleeping Beauty and then disappears behind another hill. When it reappears the other side of this hill it is framed by two stones of the circle if you are viewing up the long avenue.

It happens every 18.6 years.

suave harv Jun 21, 2006 16:50:29

Replying to FourWinds

My problem with this is - it's a 'line of sight' effect that would only be visible, surely, to a small amount of people in the avenue.
That's why I asked on another thread if someone *saw* the reappearance of the Moon last week.
I mean the moon is what, 250,000 miles away, the tallest stone a hundred yards or so. . so if you walked a few feet either side, you'd lose the effect, wouldn't you? No diffrent from seeing the moon between branches of a tree in your backyard. Walk to another window the moon has changed position.
If you wanted a large congregation to see a lunar 'event', as a piece of theatre, then you'd surely need a long distance between the stones that 'frame' the moon and the congregation?

fitzcoraldo Jun 21, 2006 16:57:04

Replying to FourWinds

Plus due to the shallow path of the moon, when seen from many of the other sites in the area, the low moon rises from the sleeping beauty and then appears to set behind the Clisham range only to briefly reappear (re-gleams) a few hours later in the V-shaped notch of Glen Langdale.
ou would not have had to stand in the avenue to see the re-gleam. The phenomena can be viewed from many monuments throughout the Callanish area and so may have been witnessed by tons of folk.

Cursuswalker Jun 21, 2006 20:51:22

Replying to FourWinds

I cannot pass up this opportunity to display me Metonic Cycle Geek tendencies:

Go to my website www.cursuswalker.co.uk

Go to the link THE METONIC CYCLE

This was written in 2001, at mid-cycle, whereas we are now at one of the extremes of the Cycle.