User talk:Coulier
Did you really take the picture of the Canigou from Marseille? Wow, that's a long distance! MartinD 08:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes indeed! This is due to a mirage phenomenon, the image of the Mont Canigou being reflected by high altitude atmospheric layers.
This mirage is visble twice a year, when the sun set exactly behind the Mont Canigou (i.e. the Canigou is exactly between the sun and the observation point). A straight line betwen Marseille and the summit of Canigou would go underwater. See http://www.canigou.univ-mrs.fr/ and http://astrosurf.com/canigou/ for more pictures, and some explanations (in french). Note that it is also possible to see the Mont Canigou when the moon pass behind it (see http://www.canigou.univ-mrs.fr/040601all.html for a very nice picture).
--François 06:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
So it's not exactly Mont Canigou you see, but rather a mirage picture of it? MartinD 09:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes, something like that. Or rather, the mirage of the silhouette of the Canigou (the sun being behind it).
--François 19:07, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed
[edit]Hello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
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20:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)