If you watch a ship disappear with your naked eyes, then claim it disappeared due to curvature, this can be disproven with a telescope, that brings the ship back into view. Conclusion that is then drawn, is that the ship disappeared due to optical effects, based on the limitations of our eye sight, and how the horizon rises to eye level.
Well, would this same principle apply at sun set? Because I’m thinking no. It doesn’t matter how powerful a telescope you look through, you ain’t bringing the sun back into view, I don’t think anyway….but you never know.
Interesting enough, if you are around the equator, say Phuket in Thailand, watching the sun set over the sea on a clear day, it is actually possible to bring the sun back into view, and watch as the sun fades away, using a optical zoom device.
DITRH/David Weiss has some videos of the sun fading out on his YouTube channel. This is the 7th. Watch it if you want, to see for yourself; video is only 1 min and 17 seconds long.
If you watch a ship disappear with your naked eyes, then claim it disappeared due to curvature, this can be disproven with a telescope, that brings the ship back into view. Conclusion that is then drawn, is that the ship disappeared due to optical effects, based on the limitations of our eye sight, and how the horizon rises to eye level.
Well, would this same principle apply at sun set? Because I’m thinking no. It doesn’t matter how powerful a telescope you look through, you ain’t bringing the sun back into view, I don’t think anyway….but you never know.
Interesting enough, if you are around the equator, say Phuket in Thailand, watching the sun set over the sea on a clear day, it is actually possible to bring the sun back into view, and watch as the sun fades away, using a optical zoom device.
How long can you do that for?
I do not know.
DITRH/David Weiss has some videos of the sun fading out on his YouTube channel. This is the 7th. Watch it if you want, to see for yourself; video is only 1 min and 17 seconds long.
https://youtu.be/jccqweCrkzo?si=8mpDbmFfSGuWV4_j