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Markel
02-13-2002, 07:44 AM
This is a site I like to visit every day :) (and if you miss a day, you can always page backwards to preivous days through the links at the bottom of the page). Today's picture is a great one. If you click on the picture, you will be taken to a larger resolution of it. I keep a collection of these for screensavers and wallpapers.

The general Pic O The Day is at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

The larger version of today's picture is
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0202/orion_gendler_big.jpg
DoPeY5007
02-13-2002, 07:55 AM
:wow:



that is sweet
whitak24
02-13-2002, 07:59 AM
wow, nice pic.

i actually went on a detour through there once when i was coming back from a vacation to uranus :D
topane
02-13-2002, 08:51 AM
Very cool. Thanks for the link :thumbup:
Memo
02-13-2002, 09:20 AM
Awesome Markel, thanks. My dad is like you, likes to put these as wallpapers. I think NASA just takes their budget and hires artists to draw cool drawings :P
Ladogaboy
02-13-2002, 10:54 AM
Originally posted by UT Memo
Awesome Markel, thanks. My dad is like you, likes to put these as wallpapers. I think NASA just takes their budget and hires artists to draw cool drawings :P

Maybe NASA should think about increasing their budget by selling desktop themes? :D
eSDee
02-13-2002, 11:08 AM
Thanks for the new desktop! :thumb:
CornMonkey
02-13-2002, 11:48 AM
purdy....
molecularfire
02-13-2002, 11:53 AM
Hehehe... look at the title of the picture for Feburary 7, 2002 :D
Markel
02-13-2002, 12:35 PM
Originally posted by molecularfire
Hehehe... look at the title of the picture for Feburary 7, 2002 :D
Hmmm. Does it have something to do with Dopey's realm? :heh:
DoPeY5007
02-13-2002, 12:41 PM
Originally posted by Markel

Hmmm. Does it have something to do with Dopey's realm? :heh: :heh: that is a cool pic too
Markel
02-13-2002, 01:05 PM
I've got a free wallpaper changer from http://www.wallpaperchanger.de/ . I save the astronomy pictures that I like (sometimes cropped to a better shape for screen dimensions) to a particular directory. The Wallpaper Changer just cycles through that directory and changes the wallpaper at a specified interval. It also has a nice option to make your icon texts "transparent" so that your wallpaper shows through better. I have over 100 images in my "space shots" folder.

I used to have an application (artplayer, from liquidart) did both the wallpaper and screensaver from the same images, but it isn't available any more. It also required you to "load" each image into it's database of screens.
ArkiStan
02-14-2002, 08:18 AM
I can't access the file anymore... Can somebody please email the wallpaper to me? Thanks.

[email protected]
Markel
02-14-2002, 08:57 AM
Originally posted by ArkiStan
I can't access the file anymore... Can somebody please email the wallpaper to me? Thanks.

[email protected]
Arki (or should I call you Stan? :) ),

Did you try clicking on the second link in my original post? It just brought up the image for me. If you click on the first link, it will take you to "today's" picture, and you will need to click on the back arrows at the bottom to get back to yesterday's (Feb. 13) picture.