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:-)
This morning was clear and bright, and being only 2 days after solstice the Sun's rising in pretty much exactly the same place as it did on the 21st.
So I went and stood on the axis from the Avenue towards Sidbury Hill (NB: SiDbury, not SiLbury - to avoid some evident confusion), on the side of the 134m hump mentioned earlier in this thread, on the road up to Larkhill from Durrington - here's a map:
 Blue line indicates alignment along Avenue towards Sidbury Hill.
... and took some photos of sunrise, to see if it really did rise where I said it would:
 Told you so :-)
To get the overall feel for the view, here's a quick panorama shot:
Well worth getting up for at 4.30am, I reckon.
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simon
PS: Our place is slightly to the north and west of the alignment from the Avenue to Sidbury Hill, and the ground slopes up towards the north east, so we get sunrise about 20 minutes later over the end of our back garden.
When I get the webcam properly mounted on the roof sometime in the coming year, we should see the sun rise directly out of the top of Sidbury Hill (which you can just see from our upstairs window). For now, here's a pic taken from our garden this morning on returning from Larkhill:
Updated 2006-08-18: I went back to the same location in Larkhill to try and take a picture of the northernmost Moonrise.
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