In a Youtube video documenting an expariment done by youtuber MrThriveandSurvive. He observes a mirror flash of the sun through an inferared modified P-900 at a distence of 17.61 miles or 28.24km. See if you guys can help me debunk this.
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_PHDgOS3ro
Here are the atmospheric measurements that he took in order to calculate refraction using a snells law calculator.
He also did a “three way mirror flash” in order to show that atmospheric refraction did not interfere with the results. the way that he explains it in the video is not extremely clear so I might have interpreterted it wrong but in essence ... Read even more
