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The Long View

This is great — Calgary optometrist Robert Burke notes that if you’re standing on Pic de Finestrelles in the Spanish Pyrenees you can see Pic Gaspard in the French Alps, 443 kilometers away, the longest photographed sightline on Earth.

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November 5, 2019 | Science & Math

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