For example: I looked at where the sea met the horizon. (the horizon is the flat part where the land or sea meets the sky) GLad i could help :) Rae
Horizon
sea level
Mean sea level (MSL) which is the average level of the sea. Determinig "sea level" is a very complex measurement. All other altitude measurements in aviation, in one way or another, are referenced from the mean sea level.
7,310 ft above sea level
I'm not certain that it matters just how tall you are, but at sea level I think the horizon is about 7 miles away.....
If you had an unobstructed view, the horizon at sea level would be approximately 24 miles away.
Altitude is the angle measured above the horizon.
yes Barbados is below sea level from my house i can see the horizon it getting higher each day
A very rough or "ball park" figure is about 20 miles. Comment: It depends on your height above the water. You could only see 20 miles if you were well above sea level. If you are standing more or less at sea level, with your eyes just a few feet above the water level, you could see only about 3 or 4 miles. For example: Eye level at 6 feet: horizon at about 3 miles. Eye level at 24 feet: horizon at about 6 miles. Eye level at 96 feet: horizon at about 12 miles. Eye level at 270 feet : horizon at about 20 miles.
the answer is horizon
Daytime starts at sunrise and ends at sunset. Sunrise and sunset occur when the top limb of the Sun is level with the horizon at sea level.
low horizon and high horizon or low sea level and high sea level
For example: I looked at where the sea met the horizon. (the horizon is the flat part where the land or sea meets the sky) GLad i could help :) Rae
The furthest point an individual can see when looking out to sea is called the horizon. For a 1.8m tall individual, that works out to be approximately 4.8km.
The distance to the horizon, d kilometres, is related to the height above mean sea level, h metres, by the approximate formula: d = 3.57*sqrt(h).
original answer of 45 mi was way off. Wikipedia's horizon article gives the equationdistance = square root of (height * 13). From the article:For an observer standing on the ground with h = 1.70 m (average eye-level height), the horizon appears at a distance of 4.7 km. 4.7 km = ~ 3 miles or ~2.5 nautical mile.