Cj post of the day, Post your Desktop
 

I thought it would be fun for everyone to post a picture of there desktop. If you don't know how here is what you do. Find that button on the keyboard that says "PrtSc." Press it. Now open up MS-Paint and go to edit then paste. Save the image and upload it to X5world. Mac users I know there is any easier way but I have no idea how to do it. I wish I had a mac. Well now you know what the button does.
David

D: Older, slower and more stupid, here: what "pic" or "screen" is it going to show of my "desktop"? Like my blue screen w/icons?

What ever is on your computer screen. So if I where to hit the button now, this is what you would see.

This shot was originally a RAW file (not much resolution still showing in this version). Shot from my backyard, with a Nikon D70 and a Televue 85mm apo refractor.

Jeff

Jeff: pretty good res to me! Fine non-telescope shot and great detail espc. on the southern pole. For those of you bored or shut in for the weekend, here's a pretty good Moon 101 Link.
BR,md

http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html

Here's mine... X5 gallery wouldnt work for me, so I hosted it on imageshack.
http://img31.echo.cx/img31/6987/untitled8lu.jpg

MD: Thanks for the kind words. I referred to it as an 85mm (diameter) telescope but it is more correctly called a 600 mm F7 apochromatic refractor, one of Al Nagler's good ones, with lots of adaptors in the light path to the camera. It likely equates to about a 2400 mm photo lens, give or take. This was on a photo tripod, no motor drive. All manual metering, focusing, etc. I used various barlows, etc, and so can't recall exactly how much glass was between the moon and the image sensor in this case. The desktop shot is about what the camera viewfinder saw.

I will see if I can find the Saturn shots, they were pretty good, at least to me.

These files are up to 6 mB each, so 80kB samples don't show much, but here are a couple to give the idea.

JCL: Good stuff! I had a beginner's scope back in NY; gave it to a neighbor...I grab Astronomy mag on occas. and peruse the arts. and ads. A "decent" scope is on our "list", though that list expands in direct inverse porportion to our dwindling/retired income, lol!

Up here on the Mtn there are some spectacularly clear nights and during those times, I get the "itch" to get back into sky viewing.
Maybe if we get the bug again and get closer to pulling a trigger, I will PM or email you for some opins/direction/ideas. BR,md

You probably have these links, but some of my fave's that I try to view every few days:
Astronomy Pic of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Hubble Site:
http://hubblesite.org/

Plug in your Lat&Lon for "sky map" of your area:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Yoursky

NASA Earth Observe site:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

David: I think I jacked your thread on Desktop Screen pics.
I'll lay off the Astron stuff, lol! BR,md

I took this pic w/ my Olympus C5060 from my car going north on the West Side Highway in New York, very dramatical picture one of my best pics :D

http://www.carlosarias.net/desktop.jpg

even though I am giving out too much information, here it is :)

http://www.chooha.com/desktop.jpg