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How high up do I need to be to see across Lake Michigan?

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How high up do I need to be to see across Lake Michigan?

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Post by stulevine » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

How high up do I need to be to see across Lake Michigan?
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Post by gabrielsroka » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 12:40 AM UTC

Ha! I created this years ago. It's just an approximation.

https://gabrielsroka.github.io/webpages/distance.htm

Re: How high up do I need to be to see across Lake Michigan?

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Post by mikewarot » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 4:03 AM UTC

If you're lucky, not very tall at all, thanks to atmospheric bending of light

Here's an example I found on flickr:

https://flic.kr/p/swQrVy

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