View from Oban Bothy

View from Oban Bothy

Sunday, 1 September 2013

Timperley Sunset

Taken on Clay Lane, Timperley at 8.25pm using my HTC phone camera.



8 comments:

  1. Is that Blackpool tower on the left. Ha

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    1. I wondered about that myself!

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  2. I thought you meant the top photo :-)

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    1. Ah, no - the giveaway is that St George's Loch in Timperley isn't quite as long as the one in the top photo!

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  3. Interesting how the refraction seems to have brought Jodrell Bank into view!

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    1. Tropospheric ducting - quite common at this time of the year :-)

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  4. If you look at a vertical profile of the atmosphere showing ducting potential, you can see from the photo that there is a sharp increase in temperature at the horizon, coupled with a sharp fall in dew-point at the position the image was taken. The duct occurs below the inversion and so with the clarity and colour of the image Tropospheric ducting cannot be responsible. I think you were just bullsh1tting there JJ. Like me, but it sounds good. Dunnit.

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    1. I've messed with tropospheric ducting, but only with the radio-type wireless waves. It's pretty amazing what can be achieved - although I've only experienced it by accident, not design! The last time was a few years ago when I used a little VHF (144mhz) hand-held transceiver and was chatting to a bloke in Chippenham - 150-ish miles away. S'good stuff.

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