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There's a Frank Zappa song 'We're Turning Again' that sums up a lot of stuff - but here's 'where it's at' (the cutting edge, as they say) http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/callanish/index.html Even just sitting behind a monitor and capturing a sequence of images from one of these webcams, on the day, is vital.

Gwenhyfar's Chair catches the most southerly setting moon, from the Houghton Common stone circle. (This is implied by the name too).

Where are the northern alignments ?

There's a sturdy horizon notch, for the southerly setting moon, from one of the Thornhope stone rows (none of which are listed here). There's a small row for the northern set (Oct 22 13:45 BST & Oct 23 13:45GMT), with a pair of robbed-out cairns on the horizon to frame it, but a large stone row - with a fallen outlier and two pieces of found Rock Art - for the northern rise (Oct 22 19:45 BST). Sadly the horizon is obscured by woodland to the northeast, so this last alignment is impractical. The afore mentioned little stone row (SMR listed) is, luckily, on a public footpath ...