Hubble's best view yet of Orion

Post by **tnf** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:17 am

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsde ... 01/image/a

Purty.

Post by **Canis** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:40 am

If I make that my desktop I'll just stare at my computer and pretend I'm Captain Kirk all day long.

Post by **Denz** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:55 am

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:52 am

awesome stuff

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:58 am

it's been my wallpaper for the last week or so

booteefull

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:01 am

tx for sharing - tis my new background, and it even inspired me to clear up my desktop - was totally covered in icons!

Post by **Dave** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:07 am

1920x1200 sans retarded logo...

Post by **tnf** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:08 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:tx for sharing - tis my new background, and it even inspired me to clear up my desktop - was totally covered in icons!

ditto. heh.

Post by **Scourge** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:10 am

This is going into Juggz' Hubble thread in Fix. :icon14:

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:15 am

Dave wrote:1920x1200 sans retarded logo...

wish i could find a 1.3:1 aspect ratio version without a logo so i could fit the whole image on my desktop without stretching. (i run 1024x768)

edit: what's the aspect ratio of the original anyway??

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:21 am

hm - also the wallpaper version is washed out compared to the other versions.

compare this:

http://imgsrc.stsci.edu/hu/db/2006/01/i ... ge_web.jpg

with this:

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2006 ... lpaper.jpg

Post by **Dave** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:22 am

there you go julie.. all color matched (hopefully)

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:24 am

incredible image.

Post by **Dave** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:25 am

oh and i suspect that they washed out the wallpaper because a bright, contrasty image can be distracting as wallpaper.. either that or they didn't bother to export it correctly from PS

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:30 am

Jules. I took the extra large jpeg image, centered it at it's native res, and allowed it to flow off the screen in some areas.

Native pic res: 1280x1280
screen res: 1280x800

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:32 am

I see your screen is set at 1024x768, nm.

Post by **Hannibal** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:25 am

Dave wrote:

there you go julie.. all color matched (hopefully)

Thanks dood, I usually don't do backgrounds but this one is givin' me a bit of a boner.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:02 pm

woot thanks!

how'd you do it? Did you end up cropping it?

Post by **R00k** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:11 pm

Dave wrote:1920x1200 sans retarded logo...

Ty sir. I set it as my wallpaper last night, but it looked like crap on my widescreen. This one will do nicely. :icon14:

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:11 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:incredible image.

Yep, it's a big place out there :icon31:

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:07 am

a pictorial orgasm

Post by **Dave** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:52 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:woot thanks!

how'd you do it? Did you end up cropping it?

I resized it to just above 1024 wide and cut out a swath tall enough for your monitor.. then I did 'save for web'

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:58 am

so just to clarify, there is part of the image missing right? (compared to the original 1:1)

still looks great - and i'm using the one u made for my background

Post by **Dave** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:03 am

yeah, there's a lot of the image missing.. the original is not a 4:3 image. The other alternative in that case would be to break the aspect ratio and distort the image in order to use the whole thing

Post by **Dave** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:02 am

Here's another one made from the full size 385 MB TIFF file out of some stars in the souther region. I think it makes better WP because it's darker and not as distracting with icons. I'd resize it, but i closed Photoshop. That file took about 5 mins to open.