See for miles from from Ringinglow / Hallam

[Dick]

Dear all,

 

Please find attached the images of York Minster, taken last year from Ringinglow road by my Father and me using a bird spotting scope and my Blackberry. You can see it with binoculars. It can also be seen from in front of the Ridge flats, Redmires Road - but you need to look carefully and the aspect isn't quite what it is in these images. Enjoy.

 

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3515079

 

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3515062 - enhanced

 

Sorry, but that doesn't look like York Minster to me!

[Tyranna]

Sorry, but that doesn't look like York Minster to me!

 

This is an astonishing view! Something like 50 miles telephotoed to nothing. are yousure it might not be Wakefield Cathedral; that also has similar towers and shape?

[butlers]

No power station between sheff n wakefield, so not wakefield.

[mike142sl]

Wakefield Cathedral has a spire!

Selby Abbey has mini spires on each corner of the main tower.

 

Looking at the pictures you can also see Moors behind (which must be N York Moors) you wouldn't if it were Selby or Wakefield.

[Mecky]

It's definately not York Minster because the cooling towers at the front and their size in relation to what is claimed to be York Minister at the rear, looks to be around a distance of 1/2 to 1 mile in distance. Also I would expect the curvature of the Earth to come into play at some point and despite the hills around Sheffield I suspect they are not high enough to offset the difference

[butlers]

Couple of things..

I,d make stanage pole. somewhat south of Holly House.

Theres also a topograph at the hairpin bend. On jawbone hill...obs. west facing.

I believe. If you stand at the tideline and are average height,the distance to horizon is about3and a half miles.

Once whilst staying on n.wales coast at about 600ft, on a day of exceptional visability...could see isle. Of man very clearly indeed.Thats about 75miles.Granted its an island not. a building.

I wonder with a decent telescope from greno,what the possible furthest built object might be sighted.

Top of holly house lane used to go bySt Helllena,by locals..and an old tale wasyou could see blackpool tower from there..

 

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Hooked now...

It seems the longest uk one is Merrick,in galloway to Snowdons summit. a whopping 144miles.

Edited August 13, 2013 by butlers
wrong direction

[Hopman]

The distance to the horizon in miles is approximately the square root of the height in feet above sea level.

[megalithic]

The Snowdon range can be seen from Kinder Scout.

[mike142sl]

It's definately not York Minster because the cooling towers at the front and their size in relation to what is claimed to be York Minister at the rear, looks to be around a distance of 1/2 to 1 mile in distance. Also I would expect the curvature of the Earth to come into play at some point and despite the hills around Sheffield I suspect they are not high enough to offset the difference

Might look like a couple of miles but that's the effect of a zoom lense. IMBW but think standing on a beach the horizon is 21 miles away. This increases somewhat as you increase in height.

 

Selby Abbey will be just to the left of Eggborough from the same viewpoint.

 

Location of York Minster is N 53° 57.717 W 001° 04.917

Edited August 13, 2013 by mike142sl

[Oingo]

Might look like a couple of miles but that's the effect of a zoom lense. IMBW but think standing on a beach the horizon is 21 miles away. This increases somewhat as you increase in height.

 

Selby Abbey will be just to the left of Eggborough from the same viewpoint.

 

Location of York Minster is N 53° 57.717 W 001° 04.917

 

Hi Mecky,

 

1. Issue of size of cooling tower and Minster in relation. York Minster is about 20 miles from Ferrybridge, not 1 - 1 1/2 miles. As Mike says, when looking through a telescope into the distance, landscape features appear to be much closer together than they would without a telescope in terms of distance from the viewer.

 

Also, I took the photographs in the evening - you can see the sun light shining on the eastern faces. Within the space of about 30 minutes the width of the cooling tower increased noticeably.

 

I would have found this odd had I not read this a few weeks earlier: http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/gallery/alps/wendelstein.html and seen what 12 minutes can do. This is known as Refraction and was impressive. The size/width of the cooling tower is therefore innaccurate as relative measure over this distance at this time of the day.

 

2. Curvature of the earth - at 230 feet the curvature is easily overcome for the upper half of the structure.

 

3. Dick: "Sorry, but that doesn't look like York Minster to me!". William Turner might disagree (painting aspect is from the north). http://www.william-turner.org/On-the-River-Ouse,-with-a-view-of-York-Minster-in-the-distance.jpg

 

It looks exactly like York Minster. Also http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/176459/1/Cattle-In-Water-Meadows-With-York-Minster-In-The-Distance.jpg.

I am sure there are other photos of the correct aspect.

 

 

PS love this site: http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/panoramas.html

Edited August 14, 2013 by Oingo