Comments on: Can You See The Curvature Of The Earth From A Plane? https://foxnomad.com/2019/04/18/can-you-see-the-curvature-of-the-earth-from-a-plane/ tech and tips to help you travel smarter Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:40:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Karl Addams https://foxnomad.com/2019/04/18/can-you-see-the-curvature-of-the-earth-from-a-plane/#comment-966830 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:40:23 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=37966#comment-966830 If flying at 42K feet (which I have) the curvature of earth can be seen on a clear day. The curvature is not “pronounced” but is slight and visible.

]]> By: Dave Haynie https://foxnomad.com/2019/04/18/can-you-see-the-curvature-of-the-earth-from-a-plane/#comment-858666 Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:32:38 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=37966#comment-858666 The height you need is entirely based on how much of the horizon you’re viewing. It’ll be different with naked eye vs wide-angle camera. And no, wide-angle lenses don’t bend straight lines, they’re rectilinear. In fact, modern digital cameras even correct for any tiny bit of barrel distortion you might get from a lower-quality wide angle lens.

Even if they did not, such lens distortion — as in a fisheye lens, which is not rectilinear — bends the image up, not down, when below the central axis of the lens, down when above, and not at all in the center. So any photo that’s showing a curved earth below the central axis is not curved due to lens distortion.

]]> By: joe https://foxnomad.com/2019/04/18/can-you-see-the-curvature-of-the-earth-from-a-plane/#comment-857916 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 04:01:38 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=37966#comment-857916 “Well sort of” This really means, absolutely not. Why would Neil DeGrasse Tyson lie when he is one of the heliocentric priests.

]]> By: Vic Button https://foxnomad.com/2019/04/18/can-you-see-the-curvature-of-the-earth-from-a-plane/#comment-853102 Sat, 22 Apr 2023 12:36:29 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=37966#comment-853102 Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and spokesman for NASA says that we would definitely NOT see any supposed Earth Curve from a plane – you would need to be at least 50 miles high. A passenger plane cruises at about 7 miles altitude. Of course, you would never see any Earth curvature anyway because our Earth is flat!

]]> By: J mills https://foxnomad.com/2019/04/18/can-you-see-the-curvature-of-the-earth-from-a-plane/#comment-840750 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 13:29:27 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=37966#comment-840750 when earth is eclipsed by the sun showing earth’s shadow on the moon then why is that shadow on the moon round and not flat or straight

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