Furthest your city's skyline can be seen from? - Page 12

leftimage · #**221** Posted **Jul 15, 2015, 5:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by shreddog

This one was posted 6 years ago ...
I have seen DT from a little further out, but not much more as the mtns themselves start to block the city. I would guess it would be hard to get beyond 100/110 kms ??

Thanks for that one, I should have scrolled through the thread more carefully. I guess the rockies are just too close for Calgary to stand out in this thread. Their residents must be devastated

I'm beginning to think really distant views of cities are in fact quite rare. I was hoping I could find some global cities photographed from insane distances... haven't had any luck apart from the aforementioned north american cities. Even Tokyo-from-Mount-Fuji has failed me.

crazycrazydoesdoes · #**222** Posted **Jul 15, 2015, 5:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

You can see an unobstructed view of Vancouver's skyline from the mountains of Vancouver island up to 145km northwest of downtown. The Olympic mountains in Washington State are 150+km, but have a partly obscured view due to the hill that the city of Vancouver is located. But the 280km view from Mt Rainier to Metrotown is hands-down the winner.

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Originally Posted by dleung

Someone needs to hike to the summit of Mt Rainier (>4300m) and take a photo of Burnaby's Metrotown (280km away). Precisely, they will see the top 5 or so floors of Sovereign and Metroplace (anything over 250m above sea level)

It has a good chance of being the furthest a highrise can be seen from any point on earth. Metrotown/Mt Rainier lucked out by having the horizon point from both ends over a body of water. I added the qualifier "highrise" because there are some villages in India and Bangladesh that are further than that but within the 330km horizon of Mount Everest. Everywhere else in the world, the are obstructions within that distance.

So I got curious and really nerded it up on AutoCAD.

In conclusion, from Mt Rainier, one can actually see any building taller than ~80m in Burnaby's Metrotown.

Mt Baker to the left

Unfortunately, any view of downtown Vancouver is blocked by a 400m mountain on Cypress Island, WA.

That really is an extreme case of nerding it out...

TorontoDrew · #**223** Posted **Jul 15, 2015, 6:38 PM**

Would a peak along the Rockies not offer the same sort of distant view of Calgary?

sync · #**224** Posted **Jul 15, 2015, 8:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Would a peak along the Rockies not offer the same sort of distant view of Calgary?

http://www.on-top.ca/Outings/2011/Mo...mber-2011.html

Calgary from moose mountain - I have no idea how far that is though.

shreddog · #**225** Posted **Jul 15, 2015, 8:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Would a peak along the Rockies not offer the same sort of distant view of Calgary?

As I said in my post above, once you get past the front range, the view is basically blocked by mtns. I have seen DT from the top of Loughheed, which may be about the same distance as Chemist's picture. Going further north than that the view is
blocked by the front range and the same for going immediately south.

I have been to the top of Rae and I can't remember seeing DT, though again that would be the same disctance as Chemists. Perhaps if you went further south around Plateau mtn, then west you may break 100kms, but not by much.

The funny thing about this is in other threads herein people have claimed that Calgary isn't "that close" to the mtns, whereas a thread like this shows that is sort of is. It is interesting that you get the longest distance shots of the cities not near tall mtns and shorter distance shots of those that are. but then again, it does make sense.

PS. that view from Moose mtn is less than 50kms, much closer than Chemist's photo.

PPS. Plus Calgary's DT is in a valley (Nose hill to the north, Signal hill to the West, etc) so the real distance mtns that you can see from Nose Hill likely wouldn't see DT.

Beedok · #**226** Posted **Jul 15, 2015, 11:39 PM**

I suppose early in the day if you're out on the lake you might see some light reflecting off Hamilton's skyline from fairly far away.

EDIT: Actually, I think if squint really hard looking at this CN tower view pic you can see something on the horizon that might be in Hamilton. There's a light patch that might be a building. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...o_panorama.jpg

dleung · #**227** Posted **Jul 16, 2015, 12:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Would a peak along the Rockies not offer the same sort of distant view of Calgary?

Yea but from only up to 90km before other mountains obscure the view, whereas Mt Rainier has twice the elevation difference and has only a partial view of Burnaby, which is beyond the horizon at 280km away. Imagine those across-the-lake shots of Toronto and Chicago showing only half the skyline, taking that same shot from 14000 feet but still having the skyline cut off by the horizon... that's really far away.

Brizzy82 · #**228** Posted **Jul 16, 2015, 2:03 AM**

Winnipeg's skyline can be seen from some places along the Perimeter Highway around the city.. I think it is generally 12-18 KM away from downtown depending on which part of the perimeter you are on.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.85069...2!8i6656?hl=en

source (gotta squint hard lol)

same angle, zoomed way in

source

leftimage · #**229** Posted **Jul 16, 2015, 4:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by sync

http://www.on-top.ca/Outings/2011/Mo...mber-2011.html

Calgary from moose mountain - I have no idea how far that is though.

Google says 96km. That's the furthest Calgary shot so far in this thread.

Angle looks similar to the Montreal shot from Mount Mansfield. Which sort of makes sense since Mansfield is twice as prominent and about 60km further out.

TorontoDrew · #**230** Posted **Jul 16, 2015, 5:24 AM**

Hats off to Dleungs needy post btw.

koops65 · #**231** Posted **Nov 8, 2015, 10:04 PM**

I made a trip to Niagara Falls today, and the air quality was pretty good for taking pix from across the lake. Crappy camera quality, sorry...

Mississauga from Jordan Station: (approx. 48 km)
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Toronto From Niagara-On-The-Lake: (approx. 60 km)
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Pix by me.

koops65 · #**232** Posted **May 1, 2016, 8:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by isotack

From the Skylon Restaurant in Niagara Falls ...67 Km away

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Very sharp image from that distance...

wingsauce · #**233** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 5:52 PM**

This city is not nearly as large as any of the cities posted in this thread, but it does have a prominent feature in its skyline that is visible for many miles away - the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York can be seen from many different angles, as it sits in a wide valley.

Albany from East Greenbush (other side of the Hudson River)
Photo taken 3.25 miles away (5.23km)

Albany from Prospect Hill, Troy (N-NE of the city, other side of the river)
Photo taken 6.25 miles away (10.06km)

Albany from Thacher Park, Heldeberg Escarpment (west)
Photo taken 13.25 miles away (21.35km)

Albany from the first ridge of the Adirondack Mountains (north)
Photos taken 32.93 miles away (53.00km)

advance62 · #**234** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 6:17 PM**

Kitchener can see Guelph's skyline and vice versa from 22km away

Calgarian · #**235** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 6:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by leftimage

Google says 96km. That's the furthest Calgary shot so far in this thread.

Moose Mountain is by Bragg Creek and is about 54km according to google maps. Unless there is another moose mountain,which is actually possible as a lot of names are not official (Castle mountain is a real mountain, but there is a ski hill named Castle Mountain by Lethbridge for example).

Coldrsx · #**236** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 6:55 PM**

Edmonton from ~30km east.

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...psrrlz3cck.jpg

koops65 · #**237** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 7:11 PM**

It looks like Edmonton could be seen from a lot farther away, given the proper viewing location... and MUCH father away once the new towers U/C are topped out...

Posted last week in the Canadian Skyline thread. Taken from approximately 60 km away.

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Originally Posted by thomax

Toronto Mountain from the Hamilton Mountain by FotografTGG, on Twitter

Coldrsx · #**238** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 7:49 PM**

'It looks like Edmonton could be seen from a lot farther away, given the proper viewing location... and MUCH father away once the new towers U/C are topped out...'

Not really as you are coming up from rolling hills.

Calgarian · #**239** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 8:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

'It looks like Edmonton could be seen from a lot farther away, given the proper viewing location... and MUCH father away once the new towers U/C are topped out...'

Not really as you are coming up from rolling hills.

So on top of some of the rolling hills...

Coldrsx · #**240** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 8:08 PM**

This is the first high enough...for a clear shot.