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Line on the Horizon

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 08:31pm on 19/02/2010 under ,
U2 are wrong.

There is a line on the horizon.

I've seen it.

It's that moment when the terminator rushes around the curve of the ever spinning Earth, when the sun vanishes behind our rocky sphere for another night. The light reflects across the ocean and through the thick atmosphere, smearing across the horizon in a band wider than the familiar bright solar disk. Set has defeated Apophis, and The Boat Of Millions Of Years sails on.

Pacific Sunset

Big Sur, California
January 2009
Mood:: 'busy' busy
location: Putney, London
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posted by [identity profile] lapswood.livejournal.com at 08:45pm on 19/02/2010
Wow! Where exactly was your vantage point for that shot?
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 08:56pm on 19/02/2010
Here!
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posted by [identity profile] lapswood.livejournal.com at 09:29pm on 19/02/2010
Nice! How high was that?
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 09:50pm on 19/02/2010
According to the terrain view, it's about 800 feet.
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posted by [identity profile] lapswood.livejournal.com at 10:02pm on 19/02/2010
I thought that must have been the case as I think your photo was impossible to take from sea level. Great shot still.
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posted by [identity profile] the-gardener.livejournal.com at 09:56pm on 19/02/2010
Fantastic shot.

There appear to be concentric semi-circles spreading out from the point where the sun is setting. Is that an actual phenomenon, or an artefact of the camera you were using?
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 09:58pm on 19/02/2010
I'm not sure - there was some haze, so that may account for things...
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 12:56am on 20/02/2010
I remember the skying being definitely brighter where the orb of the sun or the upward reflected light or whateve is above the visible sliver of sun is, so the brightness above it was there - not sure if that's the concentric circle you're seeing. will try to dig out my shots on a different camera and see if it's there/differently artefacted ;-)
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posted by [identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com at 08:53am on 20/02/2010
Photographic proof!

This is a wonderful shot. (*heads over to flickr to put in gallery*)
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