Since it’s just us here, am going to post FOR NEW EYES this rather narrow dig on the WINTER WONDERLAND pics. Doesn’t narrow the date of the pics but might very well five us an idea of the time of evening the pics were taken. Some of us find that interesting to ponder when thinking about operatives what was going on in those pics, the targets of surveillance being spied upon as they were engaged who knows what. A UK anon much involved in digging the London pics was of the opinion that the two WW pics showed the park near closing. That opinion based on his assessment of the crowds being relatively light based on scrutiny of hundreds of open source pics and parkgoers’ videos of WW from not just 2013 but the other years as well. He also noted that there are no ride vehicles on the Wilde Maus coaster captured in that pic. His thought was that the ride, although still operating, may have been sending out fewer cars for fewer people. As the park normally closed at 10pm, he came to the same conclusion that the Q pic was taken near closing based on pictorial evidence. This dig is not based on that anon’s markers used but on a different marker which if true yields the same evidence of a time, somewhere around 9:30pm. The means used is a bright but solitary star seen above the Wilde Maus coaster at a bearing of about 312 degrees. This bearing is approximated using a detail map of the 2013 WW layout, and as cross referenced with night sky simulations which were focused on that area of sky to look for likely stars to be found at that bearing between sunset and the 10pm park closing. That area of sky is pointing close enough to true North to show a limited number of stars that could be there in that time period because the stars seen are the ‘circumpolar’ stars and constellations which circle the North pole star. They move quite slowly as they take 24 hours to make a circle around the North Pole star. That means it takes 6 hours to traverse one quarter of a circle around the North Pole star. And our time period from sunset, around 4:30pm, to 10pm is what was looked at. And we know the star we are looking for would be in that quadrant of sky as we look for it to reach that compass bearing at 312 degrees.
(To be continued)