Saturday, January 04, 2020

Sunrise against the tallest man-made structure in Ireland



Strabane transmitting station is seen silhouetted in the foreground against the rising sun of 3rd January 2020 (around 08:58 am local time).

Wikipedia says "The Strabane transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located at Legfordrum and situated very close to the town of Strabane, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It includes a 305.5 meters (1,002 ft) high guyed steel lattice mast, which is the tallest structure in Ireland. The transmission antennas surmounting the structure are contained within a fibreglass cylinder. Constructed in 1963, it came into service on 18 February of that year." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabane_transmitting_station)

According to Google map's distance measuring tool, the air distance to the transmitting station is 28.81 kilometer from the window of my house (Thornberry estate, Letterkenny) from where I clicked this image (refer the below image).

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