NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Oct 13, 10:29 -0700
It's very flat out there on the Bonneville Salt Flats. And as you say, at low enough height of eye, the horizon will be in front of those distant mountains. The mountains could even help by providing contrast since the salt itself seen against the haze of the low altitude sky might have very little contrast. You can poke around out there a little bit in Google Maps (Street View and other photos). Park yourself on I-80 and look at the horizon. I noticed one problem right off: floating islands (see attached). Certainly for some times of day, the refraction could be prohibitive.
-FER
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