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HORIZONS and SKYLINES!! Apparent Horizon. 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 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.. Did I understand what my dad told me on that day? To speak the truth, I must say now that I did not understand my dad at al at that time. 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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Just visit a ocean beach and sea the horizon!
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LookLook I live close to a beach so I see it all the time. As a child I grew up in the country but there were too many trees around covering up those wide open spaces you speak of.
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Living out here in the flat land area of our country, we see the horizon fairly well, blocked only slightly by distant trees, but I have seen it at the oceans and it is breathtakingly beautiful. When I think of a skyline, I picture the buildings of a city against the sky. Not being overly fond of cities, I can still admire the skyline, and sitting on the bank of Lake Michigan, looking over the evening skyline of Chicago is beautiful. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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LookLook I live close to a beach so I see it all the time. As a child I grew up in the country but there were too many trees around covering up those wide open spaces you speak of.
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Thanks for stopping by and for your response,,William. I appreciate. Stay well.
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Living out here in the flat land area of our country, we see the horizon fairly well, blocked only slightly by distant trees, but I have seen it at the oceans and it is breathtakingly beautiful. When I think of a skyline, I picture the buildings of a city against the sky. Not being overly fond of cities, I can still admire the skyline, and sitting on the bank of Lake Michigan, looking over the evening skyline of Chicago is beautiful.
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