... The standard Solaris X server supports Xinerama, allowing me to create one big screen across two monitors, with a resolution of 2560x1024. ... So I thought I'd share the images I use as desktop images, (or wallpaper, or backdrops, or backgrounds, or whatever you want to call them) and let you know where you can obtain more like them. ... If the original images are in the public domain, then mine are too. ... Image Manipulation: Shrunk, and chopped top and bottom. ... Image Quality: Good . ...

Observational Log Cover Sheet Observation Date: Location: Observers: Jan 02, 2016 Home Myself Moon Phase: Seeing: Transparency: Notes: Unknown Unknown Clear At 2130 hours I took out a pair of binoculars and looked at M41. This was the last DSO on the Astronomical League Urban Skies list. I have a few double stars to observe and the entire list will be complete. Page 1 of 265 Observational Log Cover Sheet Observation Date: Location: Observers: Dec 05, 2015 Home Myself Moon Phase: Seeing: Transparency: Notes:

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 06/21/2007 20:47:04 . ISS and the space Shuttle Atlantis over the Clubhouse . International Space Station (top) and the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-117) following below next to the Big Dipper. ... Image taken with a Canon 20D, Canon 16-35L (at 16 mm), 6 seconds, f/2.8, tripod, ISO 800. You could see that the ISS had a reddish cast to it due to the newly installed solar panels. June 20, 2007, 21:23 hrs. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The double-sun planets, Kepler-34b and Kepler -35b are Saturn-like in mass and orbit a pair of stars (aka binary stars`). ... Along with 61 con rmed exoplanet discoveries, the project has announced 2,326 planet candidates, many of them earth-sized and many within their star's habitable zone. ... Another Kepler find, the Kepler-20 system, contains five planets, two of which are Earth-sized, though neither are in the habitable zone (they orbit their star in only 6.1 and 19.6 days, respectively). ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV ASP Conference Series, Vol. 77, 1995 R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes, eds. A Generalized Mosaic­to­SQL Interface with Extensions to Distributed Archives F. Pasian and R. Smareglia Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Via G B Tiepolo 11, Trieste, I 34131 Italy Abstract. A graphical user interface based on Mosaic, and allowing form­based access to SQL­driven relational databases, is described. ...