That is one nice picture. I'm going to save this email so I can make it a background in Linux. Speaking of Linux and astronomy, does anyone know of good astronomy software for Linux offhand? I can probably do a search on www.google.com and find some, but that doesn't mean I'll find all or the best ones. BTW, any star parties coming up? I'm kind of a lurker and tend to hit the delete the messages when I don't have time to read them. I'm in school and one of my classes lasts 4 weeks so we cover a chapter a day. It started monday and today I had a test. Joe Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote: And if you haven't done it yet, make sure you download the full-size (important!) recent image from NASA of the "Tadpole" galaxy and take some time to look over all the multitude of galaxies visible in the background. It will take your breath away. Hopefully your computer's RAM and/or your graphics card are up to the task (not to mention your modem!): http://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/stsci/0211a.jpg --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience