View the Winter Solstice at Newgrange via Webcam
Heritage Ireland have set up a live webcam in Newgrange for the Winter Solstice event. Once a year, at the time of the winter solstice (shortest day of the year), the sun shines directly along the long passage into the chamber for about 17 minutes as it rises and illuminates the chamber floor. The alignment with the sun is too precise to have occurred by chance.
You can view the webcam from 08:30 on the 21st and 22nd of December.
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UPDATE: A good ol’ public sector. The site is down so it looks like we are not going to be able to see it. However it is being broadcast via satellite as well.
Satellite Atlantic Bird 3 at 8 degrees West
AB3 TxpKC06 ch.F
Downlink Frequency 11,192.5 MHz
Polarisation Vertical
Symbol Rate 6.666MSym/sec
FEC 7/8
Tandberg MPEG2 422 SD encoding
No Encryption
o what a lovely idea good as being there
Have tried this web cam since 8.30 am without success.
What a disappointment???
I thought it might go down so I dug the server out of the heitageireland page yesterday. Here is its archive link if you missed it.
http://www.servecast.com/opw/211207/archive300.html
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I saw it on the TV this morning. The weather was good thankfully