Open Hatch

[The pictures in this post need fixing!  And many others since my blog update!  Sorry!]

My brother brought these.. adjective-defying photographys of Saturn to my attention. They were taken last year by the Cassini space craft. This is from “the other side” of Saturn. The first on that page is the nearest approximation they can make to natural color; that’s how it might look to human eyes. Note, as mentioned on this page, that the Earth appears in the photograph! - as a small blue dot.

This photograph reminded me that since I was a child -

When on some gilded cloud or flowre
My gazing soul would dwell an hour..
-Henry Vaughn

(I highly recommend a text search on that page for those words and a read of that poem) - I’ve deeply loved space photographs. So I’ve now collected a lot of them, and here they are. I also found an Automatic Wallpaper Changer which I’ve started using to rotate these images on my desktop. Click any image for a larger (sometimes much larger - maybe larger than your browser) image. Or, to hoard them all here are two huge pages spitting out the large images - the planetary photography collection and the celestial photography collection. Use the “Save” function from your browser’s file menu, saving it as a “complete web page” - which will grab all the images out. My further words about these images - after the images!
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Whatever kind of duck you may become this year, be a good one.

My wise, resourceful mother found this a while ago at an eBay store. The original is an image with text that is very hard to read, and I’ve ripped out the text and put it here with effectively the same images.  Here’s the link to the original, and if that goes down my own copy is here.  You know this is good from the combination of that picture of a duck with the first line. 

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