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HORIZON and SKYLINES! Just a little bit about Horizons! [SIZE 3]I wonder if any of the readers of my blogs ever had the opportunity to run across a vast open space of land during childhood to touch the line where the earth meets the sky! I could still remember the morning of a day when my dad told me that I could never touch that line as it does not exist in reality. Therefore, I must not exhaust my energy by running to touch something imaginary like the line that I was viewing many miles away from where we were standing on that morning... Did I understand what my dad told me that morning? To speak the truth, I must say now that I did not understand my dad at all on that morning!! I now know that the line what I always wanted to touch when I was a , is called horizon! It is the line that separates the Earth from the sky. To view the unobstructed horizon, the right places are beaches, where the ocean meets the sky in an uninterrupted line. Unfortunately, the mega city dwellers like me, could not view such interrupted Skyline (another name of horizon) due to obstructions caused by elevated features such as trees, mountains, or buildings. Such interrupted skylines are called local horizons. But what is meant by the term ‘true horizon”/ It “is the imaginary plane that passes through the canter of the earth perpendicular to the radius of the Earth. From orbit, the true horizon is spherical, following the shape of the Earth.” Things are now getting complicated for me again after Seventy Years from that sunny morning when my dad tried to tell his seven years old about the line that can not ever be touched physically! Therefore, I must refrain myself from bothering about the term “True Horizon”. In stead I may append the pictures depicting various kinds of Horizons and Skylines to see and ponder, Happy viewing, dear viewers!           |
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