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I wish to point out errors in the above writing:
> To start with the basics, it is accepted that the Earth orbits the sun every 365.2422 days.
That is the number of days per year, not the number of days per orbit.
> The Earth rotates once every 24 hours ...
The day and earth rotation are not equal because the earth is orbiting the sun.
rd = 1.00273780 rotations per day (epoch Neolithic)
My epoch Neolithic is set to the point in time when obliquity was 24 degrees. This is very significant in the context of the research above because the position of the sun and moon on the horizon has shifted several diameters since that time. The author wrote:
> All of the research undertaken is totally original and based entirely upon my own actual observations of the sun and moon rises and sets on site. ....
That won't work because obliquity has altered the positions so much. See my 2006 essay:
Temporal Epoch Calculations
An introduction to research considerations regarding temporal
variations in archaeoastronomical and archaeogeodetic variables.
jqjacobs.net/astro/epoch_2000.html
"... Given the moon's angular width of 0.490-0.553° it can be easily seen in Table 1 that the horizon azimuths at Stonehenge about 5,000 years ago were two lunar/solar diameters north of where they are today. ...."
For more on the fundamental astronomy and a link to an epoch calculator, see also:
Eclipses, Cosmic Clockwork of the Ancients
jqjacobs.net/astro/eclipse.html
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