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Old September 12th 18, 11:04 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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There is nothing better sometimes than discover what my ancestors observed around the Equinoxes as a strange or unusual light at dawn on the Equinoxes -

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essent...-or-false-dawn

Obviously it is an orbital phenomena but the present explanation is hairy and may disguise something more productive and creative in terms of cause. Of course nobody can, out of laziness or worse, look at the orbital motion of the Earth outside celestial sphere framework thereby making proper assessments impossible - for anything and everything !.

The old farmers and fishermen where I grew up marked the event which is probably lost to many nowadays due to artificial light and perhaps to a lesser degree, a society so enamoured by theoretical junk that these events are buried.

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Old September 18th 18, 07:52 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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https://imgur.com/8wx48U4

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.






 




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