On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 at 01:32:31, Graham Easterling
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Excellent visibility dowm in SW Cornwall - Lundy easily visible from
the back of St Ives (around 100km?)

I don't think the curvature of the Earth even allow visibility over that
distance.

I tried plugging some numbers into this :

http://www.ringbell.co.uk/info/hdist.htm

.... and you'd need to 800m up for the horizon to be at 100km - and I
know there's no land that high around St Ives.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)