Web-Cams at Calanais, 

Lewis, Scotland. Victor Reijs has been running a successful pilot from Oct. 20 until Oct. 26th, to catch the near northern major standstill event (moon set) with Cam2. Planned to operate until end 2007

Sleeping Beauty Range
The Sleeping Beauty Range (hills between the Beinn Mhór and Feirhisval on South-East Lewis), as seen from the many Neolithic monuments in the Calanais region, forms the profile of a recumbent figure of a woman, known as the Sleeping Beauty or Cailleach na Mòinteach. 

Every 18.61-years, known as the southern lunar major standstill limit event, an especially spectacular event takes place at the latitude of Calanais region. As seen in 1987 from the Calanais I avenue; a spectacular Moon rise out of the Sleeping Beauty Range; followed by a Moon set into the Calanais I stone circle to the south. A photograph of this event formed the front cover illustration of Current Archaeology, April 1996.

It is essential to mention that at other Neolithic monuments in the Calanais region, the Moon rises from the Sleeping Beauty Range, sets, re-appears(!) and sets again in the Clisham Range. So this is a common and spectacular finding for a larger region!

It is likely that such observations were part of a possible intentional design of the monuments in this region; made by the skilled Neolithic people who lived in the Calanais region.

For the next opportunity of this event a broadcast through web cameras is planned between mid 2005 and 2007 and it is expected that several tens of thousand of people (based on experience with a web camera at Maeshowe, Orkney) will look through these cameras towards the Calanais monuments and the Sleeping Beauty Range. 

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