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Overview of field trips to possible major lunar standstill limit monuments

• Future trips
• Former trips
  

Future trips

• Calanais, Lewis, Scotland
  April 4th, 2006
  Event: Moon sets
  See also the Calanais web cam site. This will be the real northern major standstill limit event (for set) for this standstill period.
  More info (remove underscore in presented e-mail address) from Victor Reijs.
  
• Calanais I, Lewis, Scotland
  June 12th + June 13th, 2006
  Event: Moon set
  More info (remove underscore in presented e-mail address) from Gerald Ponting
• Calanais, Lewis, Scotland
  Sep. 14th and Sep. 29th, 2006
  Event: Moon set and rise&set
  See also the Calanais web cam site. This will be the real southern major standstill limit events (for rise resp. set) for this standstill period.
  More info (remove underscore in presented e-mail address) from Victor Reijs (could be I will be there on one of these dates).

Former trips

• Callanish, Lewis, Scotland
  March 22nd, 2006
  Event: Moon set
  Society of Ley Hunters trip
• Calanais, Lewis, Scotland
  Oct. 20th - Oct. 26th, 2005
  Event: Moon sets
  See also the Calanais web cam site. No real moon sets were visible to to low clouds. On Oct. 22nd only moon until 1 hour before set was seen.
  More info (remove underscore in presented e-mail address) from Victor Reijs
• Mound A - Newgrange, Ireland
  Saterday, Oct. 22nd, 2005, 14:30 GMT
  Event: Moon set
  No moon sets weer witnessed due to clouds in the sky.
  
• Hitching Stone, Cowling Moor, near Keighley, West Yorkshire, England
  Saterday, Oct. 22nd, 2005, 19:15 GMT
  Event: Moon rise
  More info (remove underscore in presented e-mail address) from Geraldine Murfin-Shaw, she will give you directions (53.870606N  2.022776W) how to get there avoiding the boggy bits.
  
• Brodgar, Orkney,UK
  Saterday, Oct. 22nd, 2005
  Event: Moon set
  More info (remove underscore in presented e-mail address) from Charles Tait. Cloudy and rainy weather.
  
• Sixty-three Steps, Barrow Bridge, Smithills, Bolton, England
  Saturday Oct. 22nd, 2005, 19:30 BST
  Event: Moon rise
  Cloudy weather
  
• Walker Fold, Walkerfold Road, Smithills, Bolton, England
  Satersday Oct. 22nd + Sunday Oct. 23rd, 2005, 13:15 GMT
  Event: Moon sets
  This site needs quite rugged going and the visit will take place if there's less than 50% cloud cover.
  There's a photograph of a northern moonset earlier this year. The frosty skies seem best suited for these observations.
  Ask David Aspinall for more info (remove underscore in presented e-mail address). Cloudy weather.
  
• Mound A - Newgrange, Ireland
  Sunday, Sept. 25th, 2005, 16:48 GMT
  Event: Moon set
  This will be best viewable from the south side of the River Boyne (from Mound A towards Newgrange, Mound A is on private property). At the height of Roughgrange Farm, you can see Mound A and Newgrange in one line. That is a good spot.
  More info (remove underscore in presented e-mail address) from Victor Reijs
  

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