Beautiful Photographs that show the Earth's Curvature

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Atlas V launch, November 13th 2020, from Cape Canaveral with NROL-101 spy satellite.
The lower part of the launch trail is shaded by the globe, while the upper part is lit by the sun.

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Source: https://twitter.com/AGPfoto/status/1327425711498547201

 

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Power lines on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADO7nkt-rk&feature=emb_logo

 

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Zoomed-in image of Lake Pontchartrain causeway, from a high hotel window at the Northern end

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkgOD_4CTg

 

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Morning Glory​

Posted on December 13, 2011by Shannon Winslow

This sunrise this morning, framing Mt Rainier (with its shadow cast on the underside of the clouds), made me wish for the eloquence of a poet to describe its glories.

Source: https://shannonwinslow.com/2011/12/13/morning-glory/

 

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYGnCSMW4Fo

 

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This picture of the offshore windpark Thorntonbank from the Belgian coast perfectly shows the earth curvature.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Offshore_windpark_Thorntonbank.jpg
Autor: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lieven
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

 

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xkHmC-KQE


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zJ9FnQXmJI
You can do a video like this with any equatorial mount, which is basically a tripod with a motor-driven mount that spins a telescope (or a camera) at the exact rate the globe turns (~359°/day). You need to adjust its tilt to your location so that the axis of spin is perpendicular to the equator, hence the name.

 

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Here's a picture showing the apparent absence of curvature on a curved object:

Spoiler: How it was made

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/nSGtPtz

 

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I wish somebody with the right equipment would do one like the basketball image above, but of a bowling ball -- to avoid getting into side arguments about whether the bumpiness is concealing a curve that would be visible otherwise. And yes, I understand that the Earth is a bit bumpy in places, but the fewer side-arguments, the better!

 

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(photo by @Amber Robot, originally posted here: "I took this picture with a 300mm zoom lens last week of the Pacific Ocean just after sunset. I can see a sharp edge and even see the *tops* of clouds poking up over the horizon." )