Horizon view
Horizon from Birmingham
65.1238° N, 10.6979° W · cell 22WDU
- Highest horizon point
- Birmingham: 2.0° above the horizontal, 0.95 km away at azimuth 328°.
- Farthest visible point
- 53.1 km away at azimuth 111°, -0.1° from the horizontal.
- Observer
- Eye 2 m above the ground, which is 1,794 m below the 1,737.4 km reference sphere.
- Sun at the rendered time
- The Sun is above the local horizon: 14.0° high at azimuth 126°, 14.1° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 11:54:47 UTC, when this page was served.
- Resolution
- Terrain resolution: about 1.9 km, the global LOLA terrain tier of 16 pixels per degree; relief smaller than that, near or far, is smoothed, and the model does not include boulders or other surface hazards.
Vertical scale exaggerated 10x (horizontal 4 px per degree). Eye 2 m above the ground.Scroll sideways to turn; the middle faces 328°.
The Sun is above the local horizon: 14.0° high at azimuth 126°, 14.1° above the skyline there. At 2026-10-22 11:54:47 UTC.
Terrain resolution: about 1.9 km, the global LOLA terrain tier of 16 pixels per degree; relief smaller than that, near or far, is smoothed, and the model does not include boulders or other surface hazards. How the horizon is computed
Peaks on the skyline
- 328° Birmingham, 0.95 km away, 2.0° high, 36 m above the ground here
- 28° Birmingham, 9.48 km away, 1.1° high, 218 m above the ground here
- 157° Birmingham, 7.58 km away, 1.1° high, 169 m above the ground here
- 74° Epigenes P, 51.2 km away, 0.8° high, 1,480 m above the ground here
- 186° Birmingham, 2.84 km away, 0.8° high, 44 m above the ground here
- 99° Unnamed, 48.3 km away, 0.4° high, 981 m above the ground here
A ray every 0.5 degrees out to 200 km across the NASA LRO LOLA terrain, the curvature of the Moon included; each peak is named only when an IAU feature's mapped footprint lies over the point that forms it. Smooth terrain between samples, no boulders.