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   The apparent position of the Sun during the equinoxes (caused by atmospheric lensing combined with the perspective of an observer at sea level) is consistent with an approximate distance of 3,000 miles as measured directly by a sextant.''

How do you know though? You have never done it yourself, why do you trust it to be accurate?

Around the winter solstice, the sun shines on the entire edge of the Flat Earth for the entire day. The claims that the sun works like a spot light or that its range is limited are not sufficient explanations. It looks like this (yellow is day, blue is night, the red dot is the sun):

@odolvlobo,

   Saying the Sun is a spotlight is an over-simplification, you're just knocking over a strawman. The Sun is a holographic projection off of a concave mirror (the dome or firmament) and that's exactly the pattern one would expect to see. Not only that, the animated cycle you've shown appears to be in the southern summer and, it perfectly illustrates how 24-hour light works in Antarctica on a flat Earth; it wraps around.

Get a lighter and a metal bowl and observe the reflection of the light inside the bowl as you move the lighter around, it's not the most accurate simulation but you'll get the idea.




@Darooghe,

   As I stated you're seeing an apparent Sun (not the Sun's actual position) from the perspective of an observer on the ground. The atmosphere creates a lensing effect due to refraction and, perspective along with convergence also effects the apparent position of the Sun or any celestial objects that are visible. The only time refraction doesn't come into play is when viewing an object directly above you at 90 degrees.

The next time you're swimming dive underwater and look up at objects on the surface, again it's not the most accurate simulation but you'll get an idea of how refraction works. Try to grab objects above the water, you'll find they're not where they appear to be.

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It's really shame that with Google's advanced technology it can't perform the relatively simple task of filtering out the spam sties that populate the first page of results. These spammers promote the false religion of earth curvature and ignore actual science like the physics of water because they're trying to trick you and scam you. Earth curvature can't be observed or measured; it's a faith based belief system.

Still waiting for notbatman to admit he doesn't perform any experiments himself, has no degree in any science and simply believes what the internet or a few youtube videos tell him and he laughs at us because we simply believe the mainstream scientists when he does literally the same, dunning kruger at its best.

^^^ Notbatman inside an engineered high-level delusion by a mentally imagined belief source.

Refractive index of air is almost 1.0003 so there is a slight difference between actual sun and apparent sun in reality. But you need a extra large refractive index of air for explaining equinoxes on azimuthal map projection. Are you saying scientists lying to us about refractive index of air?

@odolvlobo,

   BTW we're discussing the position of the Sun on the equinox not sunsets but hey, thanks for trying derailing the discussion by moving the goalposts, misrepresenting the broad spectrum of distortion effects caused by refraction and, ignoring that perspective and convergence are involved.



@Darooghe,

   IIRC refraction tables are produced by the proven hoaxers and liars at NASA. If the object you're viewing isn't directly above you at 90° then, it's going to be affected by refraction to some degree.

You're a fucking retard or a paid (or otherwise compensated) shill; a refractometer is for testing samples in the laboratory.

You can not proof your science with insult others! Light behaves same everywhere under Snell's law whether on laboratory or atmosphere until you prove the opposite. Build or buy a refractometer and do science yourself. The below link is a guideline.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0263224194900558