THE ING NEWSLETTER No. 5, October 2001
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    An Interesting Picture

    John Davies caught this unusual alignment quite by chance one morning in August 2000 when observing at the JKT. Stepping out to check the dawn sky conditions he found the shadow of the JKT projected onto the dome of the WHT by the rising Sun. John wrote the following: 2000 years from now archeologists will excavate the foundations of the JKT and WHT and say "These temples are aligned with the summer sunrise, the ancient people who built them must have known something about astronomy."
     

    JKT shadow on WHT dome [ JPEG | TIFF ]
     

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