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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Infrared Thermometer and the Sun

« on: October 23, 2019, 12:42:13 AM »

Currently the Sun at 12:00-13:00 is at a minimum of 2000 miles south of my location. My IR thermometer has  a 10:1 ratio so that makes the point of contact at a minimum of 200 miles in diameter.  So it seems I will have to wait till May or June of next year before I can get another good temperature of the Sun.
Sun < 200 Miles
As of now I’m getting around 400F during 12:00. 250F around 8:00. And If I aim straight up on a clear day/night it reads -30F. 

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Infrared Thermometer and the Sun

« on: October 18, 2019, 06:23:35 AM »

Does anyone think this would work.

Testing to see if the sun is in our atmosphere and should the size of the sun.

The last week of July between 12:00-1300 was the first time I pointed the infrared gun at the sun.  It gave me a reading over 800F. It shocked me caught me off guard but I do remember running inside the control room and showing a co-worker. The sun was basically directly over my location.
This infrared thermometer has a 10:1 ratio. So if the sun is directly over my location and has an elevation of 200 miles the infrared gun will be taking that temperature over a diameter of 20mile.  If I keep testing and documenting the temperatures of the sun as it travels west.  And when the temperature reading eventually drops a lot more and out of pattern with the previous readings then I’ll know that the (10:1)infrared testing area is larger than the suns surface. Then I’ll keep testing and comparing temperature drop due to infrared thermometer testing area becoming increasingly larger than the sun. With the help of time zones getting the western distance from the sun should be quite easy.  Honestly I’ll probably struggle then eventually fail Due to Math.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Infrared Thermometer and the Sun

« on: October 17, 2019, 12:12:20 PM »

But if it was reading the radiation for a distant sun it would be distributed almost the same through the entire sky.  It would not be limited to a square inch and move the gun 1/2” one way or the other and the temperature drops from 450F to 50F.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Infrared Thermometer and the Sun

« on: October 16, 2019, 04:47:46 PM »

When I say directly on the sun, I mean I have about 1 square inch I have to hit and anything more to the left or right and the temperature drops to 0-30F.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding how infrared works.  But the only radiation in the sky is when I point it directly at the sun?

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Infrared Thermometer and the Sun

« on: October 16, 2019, 03:15:31 PM »

It’s not the exact temperature I’m curious about. Because over a distance it does lose accuracy.  It’s the immediate rise in temperature when I point it directly at the sun, in 1-2 seconds the temperature readings start to rise. It takes light 8 minutes to get to the sun. So is a infrared thermometer faster than light?
And the sun was the only thing in the sky.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Infrared Thermometer and the Sun

« on: October 16, 2019, 01:20:10 AM »

No. It’s definitely the sun making it do that. It has to be exactly on the Sun.  Tested everyday for 2 weeks. After 3pm the temperature would only show 420F and it’s more difficult to hit.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Infrared Thermometer and the Sun

« on: October 14, 2019, 07:12:53 PM »

I used a Milwaukee infrared thermometer and pointed it towards the sun. I had to hit it exactly or a little to the left,  right, up or down and the temperature went to 0-50 degrees. But when I did aim it directly on the sun the temperature immediately rose to >500 degrees Fahrenheit.  Does that tell me the earth is closer than 85 million miles or 8 light minutes away?