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Comment on STONEHENGE Accurate 1/72” Scale Model by stonehengecollector

stonehengecollector — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:07:07 +0000

This Build Your Own Stonehenge pic http://twitpic.com/vfzs6 may give you a clue to the Diorama puzzle if you look close. Ok folks I want to send a lot of postcards out

Comment on Stonehenge Eclipse Info by akhen3sir

akhen3sir — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:53:12 +0000

I suspect that lunar eclipses may have been more “history changing” in the past than they are today – especially since they are more frequent than solar (more opportunities to demonstrate your predictive power, if you’re a neolithic astronomer-priest)

Remembering also that Stonehenge was primarily a lunar-oriented monument at first (going by the ancient apparent reorientation of the Avenue/henge entrance markers from lunar to solar maximum northerly rising), it might be interesting to look for lunar eclipses too.

But yes, since there are 260+ Saros cycles in your timeframe it’d seriously clutter up your tweets to have to list every lunar eclipse that occurred on the same calendar date

There is one lunar eclipse tweet of interest you could post in the near future though: “Just before dawn on winter solstice 2010 a total lunar eclipse will be viewable from Stonehenge, setting in the north west”

I’ve been waiting for this one for a while.

Comment on Stonehenge Eclipse Info by stonehengecollector

stonehengecollector — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:03:07 +0000

Yes I have considered it, BUT…
1. Lunar eclipses happen far more often and I am working with some Solar Eclipse tracking software using the NASA Solar eclipse data.
2. In a Lunar eclipse the shadow of the earth passes over the moon, real Kool if you are on the moon and the sun goes out. Here on earth photogenic but not history changing like Solar eclipses have been in the past.
3 With Solar eclipses on the other hand the shadow of the moon passes over the viewer here on earth, ask any eclipse-chaser which is more awesome, to watch the moon turn red for a while or the sun to be eaten by the cosmic shadow creature and go out.

That is not to say I don’t change my mind and track a few modern lunar eclipses, just not on a day to day basis.

Comment on Stonehenge Eclipse Info by akhen3sir

akhen3sir — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:43:30 +0000

Do you fancy including lunar eclipses too? Might be, er, illuminating

Comment on Stonehenge Collectibles. by stonehengecollector

stonehengecollector — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:02:58 +0000

No I did not, MrBill did in 2001 and I plan to on the next trip. I also hope/plan to rent a helicopter and photograph it from the Air next trip.

Comment on Stonehenge Collectibles. by Karen

Karen — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:31:45 +0000

Did you take the dawn or dusktour that takes you into the henge? It’s so much better that the regular day tours which only walk around the outside. There’s only one or two tour companies that have the licence to do this so it costs a bit more than the normal tours but it’s absolutely worthwhile.