– At first I just saw what I took to be one light, one white light, but, of course, when I saw her first I did not pay particular attention to her, because I thought it might have been a star rising.īeesley: All night long we had watched the horizon with eager eyes for signs of a steamer’s lights…But what a night to see that first light on the horizon! We saw it many times as the earth revolved, and some stars rose on the clear horizon and others sank down to it: there were “lights” on every quarter. ![]() About 11.10, ship’s time, I made out a steamer coming up a little bit abaft our starboard beam. It was very difficult at first to distinguish between the stars and a light, they were so low down. ![]() – As I said before, the stars were showing right down to the horizon. – No, you could not see where the horizon in the sky finished but you could see stars right down as far as the sea. Groves: “ The night was dark, brilliantly clear, with not a breath of wind and the sea showed no sign of movement with the horizon only discernible by the fact that the stars could be seen disappearing below it.” I was sometimes mistaking the stars low down on the horizon for steamer’s lights.” You understand, it was a flat calm.” “…It was a very strange night it was hard to define where the sky ended and the water commenced. Lord: “We could not distinguish where the sky ended and where the water commenced. This soft horizon is attested to by many survivors: Photo © Ruth Hartnup (Ruth and Dave on Flickr) An example of this can be seen in the following photograph, where the exact position of the sea horizon can only be guessed at: In the flat calm conditions of that night, there was no noticeable contrast at all. But in very calm conditions, the wave slopes are much smaller, and the sea reflects the sky just a few degrees above the horizon so there is much less contrast. The reason for this contrast lies in the waves: the sea at the horizon is reflecting the sky 30 or 40 degrees above the horizon, because what you see is the wave slopes that are tilted toward you, and that part of the sky is considerably darker than the sky just above the horizon. Under ordinary circumstances, the sea is much darker than the sky at the horizon, and this contrast makes the sea horizon quite visible, even at night. The very calm sea the night the Titanic sank created what is known as a soft horizon. Send us feedback about these examples.Titanic soft horizon. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'horizon.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023 On their fourth orbit of the moon, on Christmas Eve 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts saw Earth rising above the lunar horizon from a distance of more than 230,000 miles, a smallish but sparkling blue and white body amid the blackness. 2023 If your giftee is a lover of sweet spreads like Nutella, this is a great way to expand their horizons. 2023 In addition, the study finds that TikTok functions to expand its users’ musical horizons. David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. ![]() 2023 Wildfire looks like a similar portent: awesome horizons literally set ablaze. ![]() 2023 The view of Earth's curved horizon from Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocketplane. 2023 But Israel’s calculus could change if it were offered, at the same time, a political horizon for a way out of its Gaza conundrum. 2023 At sunset, a broad stripe of fire stretched across the western horizon, so striking in itself as almost to drive from memory all the hours of atmospheric sobriety. Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. Recent Examples on the Web The small space on the ground floor showed work by a photographer from the northern state of Sonora - endless desert horizons punctuated by fragments of industrial architecture.
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