This building is perfect for doing this experiment as the 8 bands and rows of windows make it easy to confirm the height of the horizon against it. The weather also appeared very cooperative providing reasonably clear view and the wind stirring the air should minimize refraction. Excellent work Mathias.
Thanks, yes Turning Torso is awesome for testing the shape of the Earth. It is also very easy to see the different distortions there some days are from the atmosphere, like compression and stretching drive.google.com/file/d/1zgYrqXzVz4EFBOWd-MeTdvHDFalNGziE/view
@@MathiasKp -- Thanks for the feedback, yes I saw your other videos including the one with the distortion. One thing I looked for but haven't been able to find is the dimensions of the building including elevations -- it would be nice to know, for example, how many meters from the ground to the bottom of the first cube and the ground elevation in MSL. Google Earth puts it at 13 feet or just under 4m. I think each floor is 3.51m so if I'm right each cube should be just over 21m including the unoccupied floor between the cubes. So, from what I could see in the video the horizon was about equal to the middle of the 5th floor so that would be 4.5 (3.51m) plus the elevation from the ground to the bottom of the first cube. I estimate that height, from ground to the bottom of the first cube at 8m so the elevation of the horizon would be about 23.8m and that would then be 27.8m MSL.
@@Raptorman0909 Back in 2017 I did a lot of observations around and of Turning Torso to get the terrain height and the height of the different floors, you can see the result here: flic.kr/p/UHaPbQ Also the floors have different heights, and there is a gap between the nine segments/cubes of the building. But in 2018 Sweden did a laserscan of the area flic.kr/p/R9x3mt and from that we can get values that are accurate to 0.1m, I have only found terrain and top height, but I plan to correct my values for all the floors in flic.kr/p/UHaPbQ from these new very accurate values. From the laserscan: Terrain height at base of Turning Torso, over sea level: 2.6m Top height of Turning Torso, over sea level: 192.6m
What a great view point you have. Can you drop the lat/lon for both the tower and observation point into the description for those of us that believe in coordinates?
You did it again, Mathias. Your contributions much appreciated. Now, get out of the cold!
Thanks :-)
This building is perfect for doing this experiment as the 8 bands and rows of windows make it easy to confirm the height of the horizon against it. The weather also appeared very cooperative providing reasonably clear view and the wind stirring the air should minimize refraction. Excellent work Mathias.
Thanks, yes Turning Torso is awesome for testing the shape of the Earth. It is also very easy to see the different distortions there some days are from the atmosphere, like compression and stretching drive.google.com/file/d/1zgYrqXzVz4EFBOWd-MeTdvHDFalNGziE/view
@@MathiasKp -- Thanks for the feedback, yes I saw your other videos including the one with the distortion. One thing I looked for but haven't been able to find is the dimensions of the building including elevations -- it would be nice to know, for example, how many meters from the ground to the bottom of the first cube and the ground elevation in MSL. Google Earth puts it at 13 feet or just under 4m. I think each floor is 3.51m so if I'm right each cube should be just over 21m including the unoccupied floor between the cubes. So, from what I could see in the video the horizon was about equal to the middle of the 5th floor so that would be 4.5 (3.51m) plus the elevation from the ground to the bottom of the first cube. I estimate that height, from ground to the bottom of the first cube at 8m so the elevation of the horizon would be about 23.8m and that would then be 27.8m MSL.
@@Raptorman0909 Back in 2017 I did a lot of observations around and of Turning Torso to get the terrain height and the height of the different floors, you can see the result here: flic.kr/p/UHaPbQ Also the floors have different heights, and there is a gap between the nine segments/cubes of the building.
But in 2018 Sweden did a laserscan of the area flic.kr/p/R9x3mt and from that we can get values that are accurate to 0.1m, I have only found terrain and top height, but I plan to correct my values for all the floors in flic.kr/p/UHaPbQ from these new very accurate values.
From the laserscan:
Terrain height at base of Turning Torso, over sea level: 2.6m
Top height of Turning Torso, over sea level: 192.6m
Excellent observation
What a great view point you have. Can you drop the lat/lon for both the tower and observation point into the description for those of us that believe in coordinates?
Sure, lat long below:
Observation point: 55.71372°N 12.62046°E
www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=55.71372,12.62046
Turning Torso: 55.61282°N 12.97639°E
www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=55.61282,12.97639
Well done sir.
Thanks
Nice obs.