The Mexican Pyramids, Water and the Cosmos
A Guest Blog by Olly Pearson During a recent expedition to Mexico with a leading researcher in megalithic sites, we focused our attention on an…
Tag: summer solstice
June Solstice Question
Happy Solstice! Time to celebrate with a micro puzzle… If you walked towards sunrise for ten minutes this morning, then waited and walked towards sunset…
Observing Saturn’s Rings – A Tip
My thanks to Prof. Otta Wenskus for an interesting tip for observing Saturn: This has been a lousy summer for stargazing, though great for learninglots…
Sun Tunnels and the Solstice
A Guest Post by Nik Huggins. As nature lovers and navigators throughout the northern hemisphere celebrate the summer solstice, our minds may drift to the…
Analemmas and the Equation of Time
If you stood on the same spot and took a photo of the sun every day during a year’s worth of good weather, at exactly…
Chankillo and the Solar Triangle
In the desert of western Peru there are the remnants of a civilization that still holds many mysteries. Archaeoastromomers are able to deduce a few…
Happy Summer Solstice
Happy Summer Solstice everyone. Sunrise and sunset will be closer to north than east or west at this time of year for most of Scotland.…
Equal joys, Different Reasons
Everywhere I go at the moment I am reminded of cycles. Not the type that the Dutch and Boris Johnson are so keen on, no,…