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Re: Winter Solstice Webcasts at Newgrange and Maeshowe by coldrum on Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Newgrange Winter Solstice Webcast

For the first time ever, the 2007 Winter Solstice illumination of the passage and chamber at Newgrange will be streamed live on the internet.

The webcast and an exhibition at the Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the re-discovery of the Winter Solstice Phenomenon at Newgrange by Professor O’Kelly in 1967.

The Winter Solstice event from inside the chamber at Newgrange will be broadcast on the mornings of Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd December 2007. If conditions are good the rising sun will illuminate the passage and chamber between 8:58am and 9:15am GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
In addition to the webcast the Office of Public Works will be providing a live free to air broadcast of the event for anyone with a satellite dish. The event will be broadcast from 08.30am to 10.00am GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) on December 21st and December 22nd at the following satellite frequency:

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
http://www.newgrange.com/webcast.htm

http://www.heritageireland.ie/en/Solstice2007/

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