Desktop screenies

[FordPrefect]

PS: Your desktop image has a realism problem that isn't immediately obvious (and maybe can be put down to artistic license). Can anyone else see it?

You mean the out-of-equatorial-plane orbits of the moons?

 

[tblaxland]

You mean the out-of-equatorial-plane orbits of the moons?

Not really a big issue, I think. Even Earth's Moon is quite a ways out of plane (up to nearly 29 deg). Perhaps the lack of atmospheric haze towards the zenith relative to the haze at the horizon?

 

[simonpro]

 

[MAraujo]

 

[martins]

Here's mine: the sky at midday as seen from the summit of Mont Blanc in early April 2006. Taken with a Minolta DX7, f=50mm. I can provide a higher resolution version on demand ...

 

[astrosammy]

One of the greatest STS-125 images:

 

[Urwumpe]

My own painfully cluttered desk...sorted until the next CTD.

 

[Unstung]

My picture of NYC from atop the Rockefeller Center taken in 2006. My wallpaper has not changed since then:

Re-sized from 1024 x 768 to 800 x 600.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Here's my laptop:

 

[tblaxland]

@Martin, nice to see you had such clear weather for the ascent

My desktop at work:

 

[MAraujo]

tblaxland...I love that picture, I used to use it as my own work desktop, but I am ever confused by the perspective. I got it from jpl so I know its legit but it looks doctored...like the scale is wrong or something. I cant figure out how titan would appear so big behind the rings. To catch that scene cassini would have to be close to the plane of the rings opposing titan, but for this to happen titan would have to be so far away that I would think it would appear small compared to the rings. I tried to work some of this out (back of the envelope style) when the image came out but all I could come up with was that it was impossible. Just wanted to throw that out there.....

 

[Netjetstech]

Urwumpe, can you PM me a copy of the image, it is really a nice pic. Thanks alot.

Net

 

[Arrowstar]

My desktop, as of today. See attachment.

 

[tblaxland]

Urwumpe, can you PM me a copy of the image, it is really a nice pic. Thanks alot.

That image, a bunch of others like it, here:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=180

EDIT: (go to page 33)

 

[Netjetstech]

That image, a bunch of others like it, here:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=180

EDIT: (go to page 33)

Thanks for that...What a nice pic!!

 

[tblaxland]

tblaxland...I love that picture, I used to use it as my own work desktop, but I am ever confused by the perspective... I tried to work some of this out (back of the envelope style) when the image came out but all I could come up with was that it was impossible. Just wanted to throw that out there.....

For the skeptics, here is my "back of the envelope" take on it. The approximate geometry is shown in the attached graphic. The main thing to realise is that you are not looking at the whole of the rings, just a narrow section of it towards the edge of the A-ring. The calculated visible portion of the A-ring is about right (2,600 km), given the width of the Encke Gap in the image.

 

[Bj]

Here is mine;

 

[Tex]

^

heh, I see you like the 'uncluttered' look of the basic vB skin.

 

[Bj]

^

heh, I see you like the 'uncluttered' look of the basic vB skin.

Yeah, after the update where we lost the skins I never really had the heart to find another nice skin... :leaving:

 

[Tex]