Widescreen Astronomy

I've just taken delivery of my brand new desktop at work and it is widescreen. In fact, it has two widescreen monitors! My first impressions are great; I can have my code, applications and terminals all open and visible at the same time. The downside of this change of aspect ratio is that my usual background wallpapers look very distorted. Luckily, there are plenty of high resolution astronomical images available these days so I can still have the Orion Nebula on my desktop but now stretching into my peripheral vision. It's almost like being there.

For more dual widescreen astronomy wallpapers, check out Forge22 or dmb.

Tags: | |
Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Thursday 02nd Oct 2008 (18:11 BST) | 2 Comments | Permalink

Comments: Widescreen Astronomy

emm so I guess this means your research output will be re-scoped and doubled?

or you could keep one screen on andyxl blog's to make sure he's correctly tracking you ;-)

Posted by Tone on Friday 03rd Oct 2008 (07:42 UTC)

No widescreen yet; those backgrounds make me want one.

BTW you're link to 'Orion Nebula on my desktop' doesn't work.

Posted by Steve on Monday 06th Oct 2008 (11:48 UTC)

ADD A COMMENT:


Your email address will not be displayed on the website and will certainly not be passed on to any other websites or organisations. Only add it if you really want to. The ground rules for commenting are:
  1. No profanity or personal attacks please. Keep it clean.
  2. Please restrict comments to the subject of the post or relevant topics.
  3. Be light-hearted if at all possible.
  4. No spam. That includes adverts for products, pills and services that are unrelated to astronomy.
Comments that go against the spirit of these ground rules may be removed.











* required fields