Hi Chris
I was a few minutes late for the actual timing but I spoke to a few people there and the impression I got was:
Saturday morning there had been about 200 people and there was a procession (this info from someone who looked like he'd made the most of all on offer)
Saturday night had seen a good number of people but the wet weather drove some away just after midnight.
When I got there (about 4.45am) I had just missed a good downpour and it was dry but there were some amazing rolls of thunder to the north, which started just after a guy started playing some sort of african guitar thing (ooo spooky!) it was all very atmospheric.
I'd missed the sun and the crowds on Saturday, the Sunday morning was still a good feeling but the sun was hiding.
I asked about where the sun had risen on Saturday and the worst-for-wear guy pointed towards one of the trees in the east, and I lined it up, referring to your diagram, to approx Great Mell Fell.
The moon was visible and it certainly tallied, but he was perhaps a bit unreliable... ??

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Hiya Chris,
the sun seemed to take an age to hit the circle, it was a good hour after dawn before the sun rose over the south east of the Skiddaw Massif. Hardly suprising for a circle that may be aligned to Samain.
I would guestimate that the first rays appeared as the sun cleared Souther Fell on the margins of the Penrith to Keswick corridor. I'll post a photo that shows the profile of the hills as the sun rises. I didn't both posting it because being shot into the sun, the rest of the shot is very dark.
As for the amount of folk, yeh a couple of hundred seems about right. I was amazed at the amount of cyclists that were there, there were loads! You only noticed them when they left on-mass.
Big up the cyclists!