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StoneGloves
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Re: Down On The Astronomers
Sep 18, 2011, 17:32
"As usual this will probably take a while , despite it being very straightforward then you will realise and then go off on another tack ".

Angle of elevation - sorry. The lecturers at college must have said the same thing, just when I was out of earshot. But I did invent a new way of calculating the surface area of lakes. Graph paper, pair of scissors, and some accurate scales. That was in geophysics.

But you're right, there's no way anyone would stand and look at the midsummer sunset from the larger Slaggyford stone row, it was lunar phenomena they would be interested in, and to the south, where the sky opens out, like a big bowl. It's not spoiled by streetlights. In fact, if you pretend that Amos Hill is a Passage Grave and look from it, to the stone row with the Rock Art in, you will find that the direction is the same as the most common entrance orientation in Danish passage tombs. ( http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news08/passage_graves_from_an_astronomical/ ). The old roadway to Amos Hill doesn't follow that direction but approaches the large mound, from almost due south. As you get nearer to it it appears from the hillside.

That part of Alston Moor was in Scotland for a few years in the 13C. Most of the placenames are Viking and Old English.
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