There's some photo's of the previous moon skin here

http://www.geo.org/callan.htm

Hello,

"Unfortunately, Lewis cloud covered the moon about half-way across its transit, and although there was a slight glow in the clouds around 2.15, the moon never reappeared for the moonset among the stones."

I assume the reappearing is here from the behind clouds (clouds are a very dynamic alignment;-).

But the above is not meant in the sense of 'reappear' through the stones (where the moon will go more or less through them, when it sets) or that it repears from behind Clisham range in the valley (which is not really visible form the center of Calanais I).

Indeed all these 'reappear's, makes that the term becomes very vague or not;-) So it is important to understand the original message.
But perhaps this is typical for this kind of events, everybody reads their own message in it and I am VERY sure that in neolithic time people did the same...

All these different views makes it very interesting, or not! (the scientist in me still wants to determine why people get to these views of course).

All the best,

Victor

Regretfully, from the Callanish point of view, I was moving house and settling in with my new family when the moon was low in 1987. The amazing photos taken then were down to Margaret and Ron, and I hoped to see this when I went up recently - only my third return visit to Lewis since I left in 1984. However, while we had an amazing moonrise, the moon disappeared behind cloudds mid-transit.
Give me a day or two to re-organise some pages of my web-site (tomorrow, Saturday) I hope, and there will be a 3-page 'blog' about my recent visit, with moon pics and justification of why we want to see this event. Also, I've updated my table, which will give the 'best' times to be there in July, August September - even 2nd and 3oth June next year, you'd still get the moon setting among the stones.
Table will be at : http://home.clara.net/gponting/page45.html
Blog will be at : http://home.clara.net/gponting/page44.html