Heath Carmody | Inferior Mirage - Symphony of Obstruction. @heathcarmody2867 | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Slightly cooler evening than the last one but I got there just in time to see a transition from complicated mirage to a more less steady strong inferior mirage. I'm looking through multiple vertical temperature gradients and the effects of each gradient blend together, creating some interesting mirages. Notice the water texture change early in the video. This is caused by refraction in my opinion. I'll explain more in a longer video. This is my worst camera that I only use for very low observations and I forgot to set the manual focus so it went really out of focus towards the end. I also have the usual few hours of footage from 2 other, better cameras. More about this observation to come! I say that about every observation, until I do a new one..

$Inferior Mirage - Symphony of Obstruction. Slightly cooler evening than the last one but I got there just in time to see a transition from complicated mirage to a more less steady strong inferior mirage. Im looking through multiple vertical temperature gradients and the effects of each gradient blend together, creating some interesting mirages. Notice the water texture change early in the video. This is caused by refraction in my opinion. Ill explain more in a longer video. This is my worst camera that I only use for very low observations and I forgot to set the manual focus so it went really out of focus towards the end. I also have the usual few hours of footage from 2 other, better cameras. More about this observation to come! I say that about every observation, until I do a new one..$ $Another Curious Transition (Refraction Time Lapse)$

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$Hand Drawn Refraction pt. 3 - Eye Level, Horizon and 3 Point Lines$

$Hand Drawn Refraction pt. 2 - Stretching and Compression$ $Mysterious Camera Movement (but not really) A real time highlight from observation #5, March 26th, 2023. I have another video coming later today, also from observation #5. After that, Ill be working on a long multi-part project that will be all about refraction, displacement and mirage classifications.$ $Flat Earth: The Strongest Inferior Mirage - part 3 The rest of the time lapse footage highly sped up, from 4 different camera heights. The subtitles for the 1 meter elevation segment and 30 cm elevation are switched! The video took over an hour to render so I didnt want to redo it just for that. It goes 2 meters, 1 meter, 30cm (1 foot), 5 meters. All heights are approximate. The purpose of this video is to show that inferior mirage conditions maintained from all elevations despite the temperature going from significantly colder to much warmer than the water over the course of the 5 hour observation. To me this strongly suggests that upward refraction (sinking, inferior mirage) conditions are the norm except under very specific conditions.$

$See Zero Black swans are certainly not rare here. If measured by apparent radius, a small concave Earth is a common appearance, even at much higher camera heights. In fact, its generally an everyday occurrence - if I can outlast the broad inferior mirage phase as the air is warming up rapidly. This very warm sunny April day, I felt the apparent concavity should be greater than it was, even though it was quite strong from all camera heights for most of the 8 hour observation. I havent analyzed most of the footage though, so that could change. Now I think I know why it never appears concave above a certain height, and rarely appears flat shortly above that height range. I mean, Ive been thinking this for years, and showing bits and pieces in my videos, but finally I have the footage I need to put it all together and explain a few very important things, the way I see them. Not in this video though. This video gives a very rough geometric comparison of each model (using my earlier less compressed reference shot, cropped to the actual water level) to the apparent image assuming approximate eye level, but thats not the main point. Theres something going on with refraction here but it might not be exactly what you think. I want to know what my subscribers see and who has been thinking the same things I have, especially about refraction gradients. If nobody sees what I see, then I have more explaining to do than I thought. But I expect a few to pick up on it.. I may start doing live streams again, or at least narrating some videos. Ill see.$

Inferior Mirage - Symphony of Obstruction. @heathcarmody2867