Not the... actual... autumnal equinox at my location, but less than a week after it. The sunrise at this time of year is so late that it's easy to catch. Pleasingly, as seen in this photo, the crack in the rock lines up well with this one.
After not managing to be near a natural part of the great outdoors on the first equinox of this year, I returned home to self-isolation after travel. This photograph, taken on our land, shows the fortuitously seen sunrise on the 26th March, only five days after the actual equinox. Even though it isn't accurate to the standards of the ancient world, I was pleased to see it. I'll explore the routes east and west, and consider what happens next. I will be able to determine if my carefully considered theory that the equinox sunrise and sunsets occur at the same place in autumn and spring is corroborated when I view the vernal equinox from this point.The place where the sun emerges from behind the hill is some distance north from the point of sunrise on the summer solstice, as could easily be predicted, even considering the different viewpoint (about 15 metres north west of the summer solstice viewing point).
Ideas to explore will be whether the solstice and equinox lines meet at any point (starting from different viewpoints, which introduces a deliberate element of random un-scientific-ness into the project).
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