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RMS Titanic in detail
Ships that may have stood still
Californian
Distance and Bearing
Superior mirage and the Californian
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[QUOTE="T Maltin, post: 404184, member: 166865"] Dear Aaron, Yup! Imagine trying to spot a small/distant iceberg in the dark in abnormally refracting conditions like that! Fascinating pics, especially of the doubling of that lighthouse light. Even the stars were doubling at the horizon that night - and as we say Titanic's stern light may have been, too. Lord could have been further away than 10 miles (he was certainly further away than the 5 miles the two ships appeared to be apart) but careful analysis of where Californian was shows that she was no more than 12 nautical miles from Titanic. At that range it was the perception problems caused by the raised horizon behind Titanic (making Titanic appear closer and therefore smaller than she really was) which caused most of the interpretive problems. As Mila points out, the two ships were too close to each other for miraging effects to be visible at the range of the vessels themselves. Titanic's "big side out of the water" really was her listing away from her even keel as she sank! You are correct re the apparently low rockets being due to the atmosphere. Great pics and a very interesting case study of how sharply differing sea temperatures cause abnormal refraction. Thank you for sharing that, Tim [/QUOTE]
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