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Beautiful high resolution image of Saturian Equinox [img]
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olePigeon
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Oct 2, 2009, 04:32 PM
 
First picture of the Saturian Equinox, only happens once every 15 years. I thought I'd share this with everyone who doesn't check APOD daily like I do. Not as breathtaking as the Saturian eclipse (in my opinion, quite possibly the most stunning astronomical pictures ever taken), but would still make a great picture to add to any collection. As usual, Saturn doesn't have to try very hard to turn out awesome pictures.

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msuper69
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Oct 2, 2009, 11:40 PM
 
Incredible!

I am one of those who check APOD daily. The APOD archive is chock-full of great space pics. I've made a nice screen saver with over 120 of my favorite pictures.

One thing I wish they would do is imbed copyright data into those pics as I want to post some on myspace (lame - yeah) but I would have to review each one on it's original page first.
     
Rumor
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Oct 3, 2009, 11:28 AM
 
I love the APOD. I had set an Automator action to download the image and set it as my desktop, which I just set back up again.

Choose an iCal template:
  • * Get Specified URLs containing the APOD URL
    * Get Image URLs from Webpage (chose 'linked from these webpages') in the popup button
    * Download URLs
    * Set the Desktop Picture
    * Save As
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