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Originally Posted by xzmattzx
Nice pictures! You're right, City Hall's observation deck, and most observation decks, are much better when the trees are bare. You also don't get the humidity in the air.
It looks like you cannot see Toronto from up there. I wonder how high off the ground you'd have to be to see Toronto beyond Niagara Falls?
In the picture due west, it looks like you can see the Short Hills (I think they're called that) north-northwest of Welland, and southwest of Thorold. Supposedly there's a spot in those hills where you can see Lake Ontario if you face north, and Lake Erie if you face south, standing in the same spot.
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Buffalo is 58 miles from Toronto as the bird flies - the curvature of the earth becomes a big factor at that distance.
It's definitely easy to see the Niagara Falls skyline from both cities, but hard to see Buffalo from Toronto and vice-versa. The "Curvature" of the earth is about 2,200ft tall between Toronto and Buffalo - at a height of the City Hall Observation deck of ~360ft, nothing in Toronto shorter than 800ft or so would be visible - ignoring all atmospheric distortion, etc.
*maybe* on a very clear day you may be able to spot the top of the CN tower, just to the right of Niagara Falls.
Edit: I think I "found" Toronto:
Very, very faint though. Just a couple of lines deep on the horizon barely distinguishable.
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