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bawn79 wrote: I'm trying to look at this from a practical point of view - to figure out if any local monuments may be aligned to the Minor Lunar Standstill.
Using Wikipedia it calls out October as the month of the Minor Standstill and gives an azimuth of 124 degrees as where the full Moon will rise and 236 as where it will set.
However I've just be checking on this http://www.timeanddate.com/moon/ireland/limerick?month=10&year=2015
and it gives the full moon rising in Oct locally at 72 degrees and setting at 285 degrees.
Hopefully without melting my brain can anyone help explain where I'm going wrong here?
The problem is that the minor standstill event is an extreme event and does not coincide with a full moon .
Very often standstills not only don't coincide with a full moon ,they are not even seen as the moon is below the horizon . So it's two different events types of events taking place on different nights or in the case of some standstills ,days .
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