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gjrk wrote: Ok. Apologies in advance if I'm missing something obvious ;) I've had a read through Clausen & da Silva and just have a couple of questions: 1. The data for spring moonrise is given as an azimuth range of 85 - 110 degrees, average 97.3 degrees. da Silva then gives azimuths for the Alentejo tombs, for comparison (average 99.3 degrees), but doesn't seem to account for horizon altitude? Or is this included in the standard deviation? I may be misrepresenting him by not understanding the terminology. If I'm not misrepresenting him, then his figures are possibly out by several degrees. 2. How wide, or high are the corridors of the tombs? (Edit. Actually I don't expect you to answer that, just leading on to the following...) An easterly/southeasterly orientation may equally have been for orientation on the already risen sun. 3. 85-110 seems a very wide interval on which to effectively hang intentionality, especially as the tomb orientations exceed this spread again (75-125 degrees for the smaller sample, 60-130, I think, for the larger). 4. Finally, at WKLB, is the horizon fairly low/flat? Did you mean 266 degrees for sunset? You can answer me, if you wish, in musical form and I will decipher it using my vibometer :)) Good questions Gordon . InitiallyI thought it (wklb) worth a mention and didn't really think too much of it but it is growing on me . John Harbison “ Full moon ) + Marcels (Blue Moon) +Richard Thompson ( sunset song ) = Schoenberg (Pierrot Lunaire ) (insanity ) 1) The spectrum isn’t really 85 -115 it’s those azimuths either side of the equinox so more like around 85 and 110 i.e. 80-85 & 108 -115 . Those in middle would usually be assumed to equinoctial (if anything) .The histogram spikes on b and c are around 110 for the greatest number sites . This is repeated in other areas of Europe . As the data are from the same area the expectation might be that the horizon is pretty similar but to do the study properly declination would certainly have to be considered for each case as I had to in the WKLB example . 2) Hoskin did the declinations for those but he wasn’t considering the “equinoctial /megalithic moon “ (not a great description and possibly misleading ) and those decs did fit the bill . 3) Mostly answered in 1) I hope . 4) Horizon is low about 0.2 from memory .226 -225 ,what did I say ? Reply | with quote |  9th January 2010ce 12:29 In reply to: How he loved the moon (gjrk) |
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