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

Chamoto said:
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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I dont think its correct.

Because when you are looking at the moon, you are looking at an object which you see from top to bottom, where as when you are looking at Mt.Kilimanjaro from 200km away, you are obscured by the earth bieng circle and all, Staring at Mt.Kili is equivalent to staring at half a moon just when the moon is "rising"...Therefore what we see (or we think we see) as the base of the Mountain may actually be like 1 Km above the base of the Mountain going upwards .... And aside from that, the calculation for the moon uses its Diameter to arrive at that 0.5 degrees











Anyway, in short, eigther use half of that angle (the 0.57 degrees) or switch to calculating using the diameter of Mt.Kilimanjaro and not the height





But then again, if you insist on using the height or even the diameter then you will need to factor in the curveture of the earth, i.e How many degrees we are between Nairobi and Kili in terms of longitudes and latitudes

Because, likee in this picture, Our horizons are different when standing on earth, From Nairobi we could only be seeing 3/4 of the mountain because the other 1/4 is blocked by earth
 
Kama umefuatilia hoja zangu toka mwanzo utaona nimekuwa nikiongelea kilele cha mlima, ikiwa ni sehemu pekee tunayoiona, kutokana na curvature ya dunia. Hatuwezi kuongelea base ya mlima kwakuwa hatuuoni.
Kafrican said:
Anyway, in short, eigther use half of that angle (the 0.57 degrees) or switch to calculating using the diameter of Mt.Kilimanjaro and not the height
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You said diameter of the mountain? Did you mean the base length?
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Hiyo 4km ni upana wa kilele cha kibo tena upana huo ni hapo pekundu ulipoonesha kwenye picha.
Nafikiri hili la curvature nimesha lizungumzia na haijalishi uko kwenye maji au nchi kavu, cha muhimu ni kile kinachoonekana kwa macho.
 
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[emoji23][emoji23] giza you carry the mantle for stupidity in this forum.
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Mimi nishawahi kuiona Mt.Kilimanjaro nikiwa on top of KICC! tuliangalia huo mlima karibu lisaa limoja tukishangaa shangaa bila kuamini, hadi jamaa mmoja akatoa binoculars na ulikua unaona snow cap kabisa kwahivyo you couldnt mistake it for any other mountain.... So mtu akiniambia hauwezi kuona Mt.Kili sijui hata nisemeje kwasababu mimi nishaiona!
 
Ive been seeing it at upperhill, sasa sijui hawa watu ni nini wanabishana, Geza mwenyewe akaweka tweet ya pilot akiwa ole sereni and you know how flat that place it and it was visible, how much more upper hill

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Wivu ndio inasumbua Geza
 
BTW hio hesabu ya visual angle ya mwezi kutumia hio hesabu yako ya tan inverse, hio angle hawakufanya x2,



Diameter/Length ya moon devide by distance from earth unapata 0.009210526315789473




Inverse Tan ya hio numbari hapo juu unapata hio angle ya 0.5 degrees

 
KENPAULITE said:
Ive been seeing it at upperhill, sasa sijui hawa watu ni nini wanabishana, Geza mwenyewe akaweka tweet ya pilot akiwa ole sereni and you know how flat that place it and it was visible, how much more upper hill

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Exactly, ni kama vile mtu akwambie Bill Gates is not real, he is just CGI shown in videos na wewe ushawahi kukutana na yeye ana kwa ana
 

Look up a concept called 'Lens compression' when doing high amount of zoom.
Dispute all you want with funny mathematics, fact remains we see Kilimanjaro in Nairobi...
 
Burj Khalifa nyumba ndefu zaidi duniani ikiwa na urefu wa 828 metres inaonekana ukiwa umbali wa 95km but Mt Kilimanjaro yenye urefu wa 5,895 metres (7× Burj Khalifa) haiwezi ikaaonekana kutoka Nairobi umbali wa 206km

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ushashi said:
Which church do you guys go? Why do u guys Keep telling lies to the whole world? How on earth can a man see an object from such a distance? Idiots

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Burj Khalifa, which is only 800 meters tall, can be seen 95 kms away. Now compare with Mt Kilimanjaro wich is 5,800 meters
 
Kafrican said:
BTW hio hesabu ya visual angle ya mwezi kutumia hio hesabu yako ya tan inverse, hio angle hawakufanya x2,

Inverse Tan ya hio numbari hapo juu unapata hio angle ya 0.5 degrees
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If you remember your primary school math lessons well, you'd recognize something called angular and perpendicular bisector.
Kifaru_07 said:
Look up a concept called 'Lens compression' when doing high amount of zoom.
Dispute all you want with funny mathematics, fact remains we see Kilimanjaro in Nairobi...
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We're talking about seeing this shit with your naked eyes, bro.
 
Mt Kilimanjaro snow caps as seen from Tsavo West
TUESDAY MAY 12 2020


A view of Mt Kilimanjaro from Kimana bandas. PHOTO | RUPI MANGAT

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  • In the morning, Kilimanjaro makes its appearance with its snow cap, which hasn’t been seen in decades.
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It is late March and the first surprise after leaving Diani, with its white sandy beaches and blue warm water on Kenya’s South Coast, was the mist covered peaks of Shimba Hills.

Shimba Hills National Park is famous for being the only home in Kenya for the Sable antelope, which are on the decline with as few as 50 from a high of 300 in the late 1950s. The park also has elephants and other big game and is listed as one of the top 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world for plant life.

But time is not on our side so we hasten to Tsavo West due to the 7pm curfew in Kenya.

We’re the first visitors to enter through the Tsavo Gate by Tsavo River. A stunning scarlet-chested sunbird has us enthralled as we wash our hands before driving in. Under a cloud-filled sky, the rocky crags give way to the wide stretch of the Ngulia escarpment, which is home to tens of thousands of southward-bound migrating birds from Eurasia flying over the escarpment.

We drive via the Roaring Rocks not far from the Rhodesia bridge built during the First World War over Tsavo River. It gets less dense and the grass plains open to the lava flow of Shetani from the Chyulu hills. In the morning, Kilimanjaro makes its appearance with its snow cap, which hasn’t been seen in decades. We make it to Nairobi just as the lockdown is announced on March 24.

Mt Kilimanjaro snow caps as seen from Tsavo West

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This one is understandable considering the fact Tsavo west NP borders Mkomazi NP n separated by a border btn Tanzania and Kenya






 
Whoever is in Nairobi moreso around JKIA if you look up ya can be able to see this google baloon at 51000 feet shy a few metres from the edge of space, Geza anaamini you can't see that far

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