Solstice Sunset Behind Ben Lawers? - a photo on Flickriver

A few minutes before official sunset time viewed from Arthur's Seat. The sun itself is obscured as usual behind a bank of dark cloud on the horizon. The position can however be estimated by looking at the part of the semicircle of golden haze visible above it. The sun is at the centre of that circle. Which looks to be not far from the little central wink of sunset orange in the centre of the photograph.

That does suggest that the solstice sunset as viewed from here does lie along (or very close to) a line which passes over Inchmickery and Inchcolm Islands. Inchmickery is the island in the centre of the photograph. Inchcolm is the larger more obscured island behind it.

And if you look at that little central wink in the largest size you will see that its left edge is an oddly hard diagonal. Is that the sloping side of a mountain? Ben Lawers? If I look very carefully at the highest resolution image (which has been oversharpened to pull out detail) there is a very dim murky suggestion of a triangular peak there, with the left side at a shallower angle than the right. That is the shape suggested by the mountain view indicator.

Hopefully more later if the weather improves :-)

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Taken on: June 18, 2009

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