Mt Kilimanjaro can never be seen (with naked eyes) from Nairobi

Geza Ulole said:
Now give me evidence how mountain reflects light like moon?
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Let me tell one thing. Every object in this universe is either producing light or reflecting light and that's the main reason you are able to see them. You can see mountains and other objects during the day because they're reflecting light from the sun. On the other hand you can't see mountains at night because there is no source of light near them to reflect. Even human beings and other animals reflect light. Are we together?
 
KENPAULITE said:
You mean Albedo, snow reflects 90%

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Moon Albedo

The albedo of the Moon is 0.12. In other words, the Moon reflects back 12% of all the radiation that falls upon it.
As you may or may not know, albedo is a term that astronomers use to measure reflectivity of an object in space; more specifically, it measures how much of the Sun’s radiation an object reflects. An albedo of 0 means that object is dark, while a 1 means that it’s very bright and reflective.

So, how does the Moon albedo compare to other objects in the Solar System? As bright as the Moon looks from our perspective here on Earth, the Moon’s albedo is actually pretty low. The object with the highest albedo in the Solar System is Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which has an albedo of 0.99, which means that it’s covered with very reflective snow and ice. The Moon is much more similar to a very dark object, like an asteroid. The darkest asteroids in the Solar System have an albedo of 0.06. That’s pretty close to 0.

The brightness of the Moon changes as its phases change. During the first and last quarters, the visible Moon is illuminated 50% by the Sun, but it only has about 8% of the brightness of a full Moon. This is because the sunlight is hitting the Moon at an angle and deflecting away from us. When the Moon is full, sunlight is hitting the Moon and then bouncing directly back. This is why the Moon is so much brighter during a full Moon.

We have done lots of articles about the Moon on Universe Today. Here’s an article about explosions on the Moon. And here’s another about building a Moon base.

Here’s a great article that helps explain the Moon’s albedo.

You can listen to a very interesting podcast about the formation of the Moon from Astronomy Cast, Episode 17: Where Did the Moon Come From?

Moon Albedo - Universe Today

Snow albedo ranges between about 0.50 and 0.90, and decreases with grain size, the angle of solar incidence, impurities, and the ratio of direct to diffuse sunlight. Snow albedo is thus higher for new snow and under cloudy skies or when the sun is at a low angle in the sky.Feb 11, 2020

Snow albedo - Snow - Climate Policy Watcher
 
Aaah so you agree snow reflects light given the range of 0.5 to 0.9?

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The stupidity in this thread😵😵

So Geuza ulale is a flat earther. Mt kilimanjaro doesn't reflect light, so how do people climb what they cant see? All the pics of people at the top are fake, or the whole mountain is fake!

I studied in a primary school on the side of Nairobi upperhill that starts sloping towards maasai plains. Seeing Mt kilimanjaro every morning was so usual during rain season that cleans dust from the air. We are lucky in Nairobi to see the 2 highest mountains in Africa on either side. Wivu ya Geza cant change that.
 
Guys wasting time na mbishi mpumbavu Geuza Jiwe ulalie!......ha!🙄🙄😕
 
Remind me how far is the moon?
 
mwaswast said:
The moon can be seen during the day but not always. Mt. Kenya can be seen during the day from Nairobi but not always. Mt. Kilimanjaro can be seen during the day but not always.
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From the above diagram you can see the visual angle of the mountain from Nairobi is roughly around 1 degree which is about twice the visual angle of the moon or the sun.

With this realization we expect to see the image of the peak of mt. Kilimanjaro to have twice the relative size of the moon's diameter.

Unfortunately, on the image below the peak of the mountain from Nairobi (allegedly) is about three times the relative visual size of the moon. If both the sun and moon, regardless of their actual sizes and distances from the earth have the same visual angles and the relative sizes, how come the relative visual size of the mountain from Nairobi is not having the same ratio?





This image above shows the calculations for finding the visual angle of mount Kilimanjaro (about 12 degrees) from Amboseli, which is only 17 km away.

The picture below is the image of the mountain from Amboseli. looking at the image, visual angle (12 degrees) of Kibo from Amboseli is similar to that of one degree from Nairobi, since when 12 equals to1?


It's not about whether an object reflects light but how much light is reflected.The mountain is too small compared to the moon to reflect a significant amount of sunrays.
 

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Correct me if i'm wrong but from your calcualtions, your visual range angle of mt.kili from Nairobi is 0.57 degrees , In this particular issue, 0.57 Degrees is not roughly 1 degrees, 0.57 degrees should not be rounded off to the rearest one just to make a point,

The Visual angle of the moon is 0.5 degrees





So mount Kili from Nairobi should be slighly bigger than the moon, not Twice as big, And that particular image you posted shows exactly that !

 

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From the diagram, the angle 0.57 degrees is just a half angle, the visual angle is 0.57 x 2 = 1.14 degrees. So rounding it off to 1 degree (twice the visual angle of the moon and sun) is correct.
 
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