Randall's Photo Blog

For those of you fortunate enough to have a new 27" iMac you know that the screens on these beauties are pretty large. It takes a 5 megapixel image to fill the screen! My old 4 MP digital images are too small. I am posting an image that I found on the web a while back. It is a new image of the Orion nebula taken by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) in Chile. This new telescope is part of the European Southern Observatory consortium. The link to the original is here. I turned and re-sized it for the native screen resolution of the 27" iMac (2560x1440) - enjoy:

I don't post up my own higher resolution images as wallpaper images anymore as theft of the images would be all too easy at these resolutions. Since this image is available free of charge and I link back to the original (and I'm not charging anything) I hope this is OK. It is a stunning image!