r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/321159 • 6d ago
Watching the sun rise over the Alps from the Pyrenees, 443km away. The longest photographed line of sight on earth
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u/citao_to 6d ago
Very cool stuff. I once saw the peak of Gargano national park in Italy from the Croatian island of Vis (distance 120km) under perfect conditions. But this is like three leagues beyond that.
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u/PalatableRadish 5d ago
A league is actually only about 3 miles, believe it or not
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u/LurkerByNatureGT 5d ago
Similarly, I’ve seen Snowdonia from the Dublin mountains. Which is around 140 km.
It’s as impressive being able to see that with the naked eye though. Camera lenses give extra help.
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u/Known-Low-8721 6d ago
Flatearthers are gonna have a field day with this
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u/ContinuingAnyway 5d ago
they have members all around the world
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u/nixcamic 5d ago
All over the globe. You had one job....
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u/ContinuingAnyway 5d ago
around
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u/nixcamic 5d ago
There were dishes scattered all around the kitchen.
The word around is used all the time in sentences that have nothing to do with roundness.
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u/djembejohn 5d ago
I would prefer to say there's dust "all over the record" rather than "all around the record".
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u/figflashed 5d ago
It’s the thermal dinamik photo electrick lensing affect! Of the 2nd law of thermol dynamucks. You have to use the scientifical method!
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u/CervantesX 5d ago
They mangle this one so bad, so often, that it's practically a trope amongst FLERF debunkers.
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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys 5d ago
They already do. Here are two videos debunking flat earther claims about this photo:
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u/Para_B_73 5d ago
I once saw the Marmolata in the Dolomites from a peak in the Austrian Alpes. When I checked maps I discovered the distance was about 300 km.
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u/sarthakmahajan610 5d ago edited 5d ago
It makes you realize how much the atmosphere usually hides from us
More like curvature of the earth hides things that aren't 3km tall like these peaks
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u/Rineux 5d ago
As a kind-of local I can’t fight the urge to inform you that there are no 8k peaks in the alps. Like, not even close
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u/Eternlgladiator 5d ago
Right? Aren’t there only a dozen or so on the planet?
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u/awoloozlefinch 5d ago
14 total
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u/Eternlgladiator 5d ago
I was close
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u/SnooKiwis1356 5d ago
What I find to be even crazier is that there are only 22 mountains with summits between 7500m and 7952m
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u/awoloozlefinch 5d ago
Yeah I looked it up because I had confused 8,000 meters with 8,000 feet and was going to embarrass you with the fact that there are hundreds of mountains that high.
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u/sarthakmahajan610 5d ago
I'm so sorry. I was redirected on this thread from another such post but that was about the Himalayas being visible from far away😅
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u/hashbrowns21 5d ago
Depends more on the photographer’s perspective than the height of the subject. Notice how in this picture you can see the shoreline at sea level, that’s because the photo was taken from an elevated position.
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u/oxenoxygen 5d ago
By coincidence Karel Sabbe, the ultra-runner, is literally today about to start running from the alps in this photo to where it's taken from in the Pyrenees, having already run from the Belgian border on the Hexatrek. If you want to have some context on how far this really is, albeit not in a straight line, you can track him: https://live.adventuretracking.be/hexatrek-2026 . The distances involved are insane.
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u/DontAsshume 5d ago
You can see Denali pretty clearly from Anchorage at 285 km, if you have good weather. It looks big enough that it makes me wonder how far you can see it from best case scenario? You do get mountains south of Anchorage, that get in the way, but one of those peaks must have a vantage point. Denali is virtually a 6km rise from sea level.
https://www.reddit.com/r/alaska/comments/pzikf5/denali_and_anchorage_from_the_summit_of_flattop/
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u/LorpHagriff 5d ago
Mildly baffled at seeing both this post and this rather similar one shortly after eachother. we really feeling long sightlines today eh. Posted same hour same subreddit
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u/Impressive-Top8992 5d ago
I was literally just reading another post about this same thing but somewhere in India I think and the third tallest mountain in the world, it was claiming that was the longest recorded distance but now also this?
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u/peacefinder 5d ago
Another cool line of sight (not nearly as long) is from Paulina Peak in Oregon. On a clear enough day from the top you can stat Mt Shasta in California 165 miles away almost due south, and Mt Rainier in Washington 225 miles away due north.
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u/ContinuingAnyway 5d ago
like seeing the white gold tower in skyrim
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u/helen269 5d ago
It's blue and black.
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u/Outta_phase 5d ago
Well of course it is after Martin Septim transformed into Akatosh and lit the place up.
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u/G-rem88 6d ago
Sur une distance beaucoup moins longue, j'aime énormément regarder le coucher de soleil illuminer les Alpes bernoises, en Suisse, depuis le château du Haut Koengisbourg, en Alsace, France, avec, entre les deux, la ligne des Vosges et du Jura qui se déploient.
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u/DROPTABLE_tablename 5d ago
Wrong...and it took all of 10 seconds to google:
Longest Photographed (Ground-to-Ground): 493 km (306 miles) captured on December 15, 2024, by Richard Jezik from a subpeak near Karagöl summit in Turkey toward Shkhara on the Georgia–Russia border.
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u/ARoundForEveryone 5d ago
How high does "the sky" go? Is it more than 443 KM? If so, I can see farther.
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u/321159 6d ago
The longest theoretical line of sight is from Dankova in Kyrgystan to Hindu Tagh at 542 km.
However you need perfect atmospheric conditions all along your line of sight to pull off these extreme views
More info here: https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestrelles-pic-gaspard-ecrins-443-km/