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The missing part of the boat that is missing in the left image is just hidden by the quasi-spherical shape of the Earth. In fact, if you would know the size of the boat and its distance, we could infer the radius of the Earth. But since we already know this, let's do it the other way around, and deduce the distance to which we can see the full boat:

where $\gamma\gamma is in degrees, see the cartoon below.

This ostensible curvature of the Earth is mostly an artifact of the camera's wide-angle objective, not what Felix Baumgartner actually saw.

The missing part of the boat in the left is just hidden by the quasi-spherical shape of the Earth. In fact, if you would know the size of the boat and its distance, we could infer the radius of the Earth. But since we already know this, let's do it the other way around, and deduce the distance to which we can see the full boat:

where $\gamma\ is in degrees, see the cartoon below.

This ostensible curvature of the Earth is mostly an artifact of the camera's objective, not what Felix Baumgartner actually saw.

The part of the boat that is missing in the left image is hidden by the quasi-spherical shape of the Earth. In fact, if you would know the size of the boat and its distance, we could infer the radius of the Earth. But since we already know this, let's do it the other way around and deduce the distance to which we can see the full boat:

where gamma is in degrees, see the cartoon below.

This ostensible curvature of the Earth is mostly an artifact of the camera's wide-angle objective, not what Felix Baumgartner actually saw.

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From just 3 m above the surface, you can see the horizon 6.2 km apart. If you are 30 m high, then you can see up to 20 km far away. This is one of the reasons why the ancient cultures, at least since the sixth century BC, knew that the Earth was curved, not flat. They just needed good eyes. You can read first-hand Pliny (1st century) on the unquestionable spherical shape of our planet in his Historia Naturalis.

This ostensible curvature of the Earth is mostly an artifact of the camera's objective, not what Felix Baumgartner actually saw.

From just 3 m above the surface, you can see the horizon 6.2 km apart. If you are 30 m high, then you can see up to 20 km far away. This is one of the reasons why the ancient cultures knew that the Earth was curved, not flat. They just needed good eyes.

This ostensible curvature of the Earth is mostly an artifact of the camera's objective, not what Felix Baumgartner actually saw

From just 3 m above the surface, you can see the horizon 6.2 km apart. If you are 30 m high, then you can see up to 20 km far away. This is one of the reasons why the ancient cultures, at least since the sixth century BC, knew that the Earth was curved, not flat. They just needed good eyes. You can read first-hand Pliny (1st century) on the unquestionable spherical shape of our planet in his Historia Naturalis.

This ostensible curvature of the Earth is mostly an artifact of the camera's objective, not what Felix Baumgartner actually saw.

Nicer with LaTeX equations? (> d=R*atan(sqrt(2*R*h)/R) and gamma=180/PI*atan(sqrt(2*R*h)/R)
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Depends on your eye. You can realise the curvature of the Earth by just going to the beach. Last summer I was on a scientific cruise in the Mediterranean. I took two pictures of a distant boat, within an interval of a few seconds: one from the lowest deck of the ship (left image), the other one from our highest observation platform (about 16 m higher; picture on the right):   

A distant boat seen from 6 m and 22 m above the sea surface

The distance d$d$ from an observer O$O$ at an elevation h$h$ to the visible horizon follows the equation (adopting a spherical Earth):

d=Ratan(sqrt(2R*h)/R)$$ d=R\times\arctan\left(\frac{\sqrt{2\times{R}\times{h}}}{R}\right) $$

where d$d$ and h$h$ are in meters and R=6370e3 m$R=6370*10^3m$ is the radius of the Earth. The plot is like this:

But addressing more precisely the question. Realising that the horizon is lower than normal (lower than the perpendicular to gravity) means realising the angle (gamma$gamma$) that the horizon lowers below the flat horizon (angle between OH$OH$ and the tangent to the circle at O, see cartoon below; this is equivalent to gamma in that cartoon). This angle depends on the altitude h$h$ of the observer, following the equation:

gamma=180/PIatan(sqrt(2R*h)/R)$$ \gamma=\frac{180}{\pi}\times\arctan\left(\frac{\sqrt{2\times{R}\times{h}}}{R}\right) $$

where gamma$\gamma\ is in degrees, see the cartoon below.

Depends on your eye. You can realise the curvature of the Earth by just going to the beach. Last summer I was on a scientific cruise in the Mediterranean. I took two pictures of a distant boat, within an interval of a few seconds: one from the lowest deck of the ship (left image), the other one from our highest observation platform (about 16 m higher; picture on the right):  A distant boat seen from 6 m and 22 m above the sea surface

The distance d from an observer O at an elevation h to the visible horizon follows the equation (adopting a spherical Earth):

d=Ratan(sqrt(2R*h)/R)

where d and h are in meters and R=6370e3 m is the radius of the Earth. The plot is like this:

But addressing more precisely the question. Realising that the horizon is lower than normal (lower than the perpendicular to gravity) means realising the angle (gamma) that the horizon lowers below the flat horizon (angle between OH and the tangent to the circle at O, see cartoon below; this is equivalent to gamma in that cartoon). This angle depends on the altitude h of the observer, following the equation:

gamma=180/PIatan(sqrt(2R*h)/R)

where gamma is in degrees, see the cartoon below.

Depends on your eye. You can realise the curvature of the Earth by just going to the beach. Last summer I was on a scientific cruise in the Mediterranean. I took two pictures of a distant boat, within an interval of a few seconds: one from the lowest deck of the ship (left image), the other one from our highest observation platform (about 16 m higher; picture on the right): 

A distant boat seen from 6 m and 22 m above the sea surface

The distance $d$ from an observer $O$ at an elevation $h$ to the visible horizon follows the equation (adopting a spherical Earth):

$$ d=R\times\arctan\left(\frac{\sqrt{2\times{R}\times{h}}}{R}\right) $$

where $d$ and $h$ are in meters and $R=6370*10^3m$ is the radius of the Earth. The plot is like this:

But addressing more precisely the question. Realising that the horizon is lower than normal (lower than the perpendicular to gravity) means realising the angle ($gamma$) that the horizon lowers below the flat horizon (angle between $OH$ and the tangent to the circle at O, see cartoon below; this is equivalent to gamma in that cartoon). This angle depends on the altitude $h$ of the observer, following the equation:

$$ \gamma=\frac{180}{\pi}\times\arctan\left(\frac{\sqrt{2\times{R}\times{h}}}{R}\right) $$

where $\gamma\ is in degrees, see the cartoon below.

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