Solving the controversy about the astronomical significance of the rock formation “Teufelstein” in Styria

✍ Scribed by S. Rothwangl; M.G. Firneis

• Book ID: 101699921
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Volume: 330
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-6337
• DOI: 10.1002/asna.200911222

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

As two very controversial surveys of the rock formation “Teufelstein” exist in literature (H. Haupt versus H.M. Maitzen as well as W. Schlosser), a photographic documentation of solar and lunar rising and setting points throughout a whole year as well as a remeasurement with a solar compass was carried out on the spot. The result is that the formation is not an accurate solar marker but could only have served as a warning peg for the summer solstice setting point (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)