Distant Toronto skyline or mirage? Shot from Oswego, NY across ~145 miles of Lake Ontario (278° bearing)
Captured this across Lake Ontario at sunset from Oswego, NY. Camera heading/bearing sits right around 278.17 True North, which points straight toward the Toronto metropolitan area (~145 miles away).
I am noticing weird vertical compression and some very blocky, distorted shapes along the horizon that look almost like a skyline mixed with floating structures. I am wondering if this is a legitimate long-distance Fata Morgana/superior mirage of Toronto, or if it's atmospheric distortion of something else entirely.
Hopefully, the images which I add contain the metadata required for someone to potentially analyze it:
As you can see from the screenshot, this picture was taken directly pointing at Toronto where the mirage was occurring. I used an iPhone 15 with 10x digital zoom to take this picture; I noticed something strange in the sky which did not look like clouds because they had rigid edges and appeared to dip below the horizon.
