Thread: Zodiacal light
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Old September 18th 18, 07:52 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default Zodiacal light

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For whatever reason, perhaps weather related, many of the monuments from antiquity survive on the island whereas they have been lost in Continental Europe where invasions or larger populations have built over ancient sites.

Due to the recent drought in the Western isles of Europe, a photographer using
a drone discovered henges from 5,200 years ago in an area full of such monuments -

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/an...very-newgrange

People here are so wrapped up in themselves and their own convictions that they don't see the older history of astronomy and the great movement of people after the last ice age who built monuments to mark the passage of the seasons. Not just the Equinox itself but the appearance of Zodiacal lights would have enhanced the astronomical spectacle for ancient people as it did for recent societies.

People are better than the dull and dreary concerns of people who live with intellectual mediocrity and who exercise no discipline where it matters so they should take notice of these lights when and where possible.