In this video I explore features about the perched stone. I take an azimuth reading of 185 degree for the alignment between the dolmen and the glacial stone behind it. I do not readily see a significance behind it, other than it could have been a way to observe the patterns of Mars. At 185 degrees, Mars, moving right to left, starts to lose its brightness:
Date Time Alt Azimuth S.D Magitude
2018/08/01 0:00:00 22 22 05 185 44 44 0 12.2 -2.8
2018/08/02 0:00:00 22 11 29 186 57 58 0 12.2 -2.8
2018/08/03 0:00:00 21 59 58 188 10 44 0 12.1 -2.7
The video cover shows how Mars would appear as it moved nightly in the sky, left to right, becoming more faint as it moved right. If the original inhabitants of this site recognized Mars as a sacred celestial object, this could have been a way to determine how fast the summer was progressing, with the perched stone feature at the 180-185 degree mark, and the planet becoming fainter as is moved to the right. No idea of the significance of 109 degrees. Brian Ghilliotti
Sources: http://eco.mtk.nao.ac.jp/cgi-bin/koyomi/cande/horizontal_en.cgi
The closest significance I can see for 109 degrees is the following data set for the moon:
Date Time Alt Azimuth
2018/06/05 0:00:00 1 59 03 111 30 14
2018/07/04 0:00:00 11 50 24 112 59 58
2018/08/02 0:00:00 22 53 21 113 54 32
Source:
http://eco.mtk.nao.ac.jp/cgi-bin/koyomi/cande/horizontal_en.cgi
It seems as if the moon has an horizonal azimuth point each month in the summer that moves to the right of the stone wall promination that i observed.
