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Calculate the Distance to the Horizon was or will be a featured article on 2007-10-15. If you see a way this article can be made even better, please feel free to edit it. ... I don't think it's as simple to calculate the distance to a visual horizon. The ease of these calculations depends on there being a perfect 90...
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For example, let's say you are on the water in a friend's sport fishing boat and your height of eye is 9 feet above the surface of the water. The formula to calculate distance to the horizon is:
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www.boatsafe.com/kids/distance.htm
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How could you calculate the distance to the horizon or the "distance off" if you know the height of an object? ... If you want to calculate the distance at which an object becomes visible, you must know your height of eye and the height of the object. You then do the same calculation for your distance to the horizon and...
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How to Calculate the Distance to the Horizon. Sometimes on a boat or just peering into the distance, you might wonder just how far you are from the horizon or how close things on the horizon really are. Calculating the distance of the horizon... ... eHow Article: How to Calculate the Distance to the Horizon...
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Imagine you were standing at an elevation of h meters above the ocean and looking out across the water. What is the distance D to the horizon? It can be calculated, if you know the radius R of the Earth. ... where √ stands here for "square root of". This equation lets one calculate D--in kilometers, if h and R are given...
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www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Shorizon.htm
www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Shorizon.htm
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Related Tags: calculator | distance | horizon | answer | measure ... Understand that you have just used Pythagoras theorem to calculate the distance to the horizon. ... How to Calculate the Distance to the Horizon Provided by eHow.com...
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The triangle is a right-angled one, whose sides are the radius of the planet, the radius of the planet plus the height of the observer, and the distance to the horizon.
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www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/rp_horizon_distance.html
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In order to actually calculate the distance in this way, you need to have a background at a distance of "infinity". Of course, things aren't really ... What is the furthest streetlight that you can look at, with your eyes alternately open and closed, and still notice it moving relative to, say, things on the horizon,
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First of all, we have to define what we mean by "How far to the horizon?" The simplest way, and the most common answer to the question if you ask Google, is to calculate the distance from the observer’s eyes to the horizon.
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www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/03/25/distance-to-the-...
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