The Hour Before Sunrise @bobshafto

Bobby Shafto | The Hour Before Sunrise @bobshafto | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Time-lapse of the 60 minutes before sunrise.
Lunardi Creek (San Diego County) on December 4th, 2023, from about 5:52 to 6:55 local time.

$Globe v Flat Round 3 Friday, February 10th Time-lapse of an hour of video shooting from the same spot on the Shelter Island boat ramp. Skip to 5:38 if you just want to see the final scoring without sitting through 5 minutes of wiggly land/seascape. Observed objects near the horizon migrated around the halfway point between flat geometric and globe geometric (no refraction) calculated position. Obviously, this was not a no-refraction day. (There never is a no-refraction day.) But even with all the looming and distortion, flat geometry struggled to overcome globe. But, it was enough to deny globe a 3rd consecutive win. Scoring this one a tie. Not a good day for distinguishing globe or flat; at least not based on whats going on at or with the horizon. Hoping, by now, the point that we shouldnt be seeing that islands southern tip on a globe is not evidence that earth is flat.$

2 Simultaneous Views from Different Elevations

Anti-Solar Sunrise with Earth Shadow #timelapse