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MR. W. MOSS'S account in NATURE for August 7, p. 583, as to how to get the area of a sphere theoretically visible at any altitude is interesting; but can he, or any of your readers, say what the formula is for obtaining the distance actually visible with an average amount of refraction? So far as I can discover, all ordinary books of tables ignore this, although such a table would be very useful.
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BACKHOUSE, T. Distance of the Visible Horizon. Nature 92, 96 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092096c0
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