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Lunar Screen Background ("Radiance") is backwards!Has anyone else commented on the fact that the Windows screen background,
Radiance, is mirror-reversed? It is a photograph of the Northern edge of the Mare Imbrium (the Left eye of the Man in the Moon). If you have very sharp vision (or a decent pair of binoculars) you can see this for yourself. Presumably this is a photo taken through a reflecting telescope with an odd number of mirrors, but still, the moon is a real, physical, easily visible object, and it is not trivial -I think- to get it backwards. I mean, what if one of the backgrounds showed a telescopic picture of the Earth taken from space and had the continents flipped over? Does anyone know where this picture came from and if it has always been backwards? I know it's a bit OCD, but I "fixed" the image on the computers where I work ;^) . "Robin Colgrove" wrote: It is a photograph of the Northern edge of the > Mare Imbrium (the Left eye of the Man in the Moon). Oops, sorry, typing faster than I was thinking. It's the _right_ eye (or, if you prefer, the hump on the back of the Rabbit in the Moon, which I like better). I think being left-handed makes me more prone to mirror-reversal errors, which is partly why I was interested in this one. This is not the first thing Microsoft has gotten backwards.
--- Leonard Grey Errare Humanum Est Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp Robin Colgrove wrote: Show quoteHide quote > Has anyone else commented on the fact that the Windows screen background, > Radiance, is mirror-reversed? It is a photograph of the Northern edge of the > Mare Imbrium (the Left eye of the Man in the Moon). If you have very sharp > vision (or a decent pair of binoculars) you can see this for yourself. > Presumably this is a photo taken through a reflecting telescope with an odd > number of mirrors, but still, the moon is a real, physical, easily visible > object, and it is not trivial -I think- to get it backwards. I mean, what if > one of the backgrounds showed a telescopic picture of the Earth taken from > space and had the continents flipped over? Does anyone know where this > picture came from and if it has always been backwards? I know it's a bit OCD, > but I "fixed" the image on the computers where I work ;^) . Robin Colgrove wrote:
> Has anyone else commented on the fact that the Windows screen Most celestial telescopic images are presented as inverted (upside-down) and > background, Radiance, is mirror-reversed? It is a photograph of the > Northern edge of the Mare Imbrium (the Left eye of the Man in the > Moon). If you have very sharp vision (or a decent pair of > binoculars) you can see this for yourself. Presumably this is a photo > taken through a reflecting telescope with an odd number of mirrors, > but still, the moon is a real, physical, easily visible object, and > it is not trivial -I think- to get it backwards. I mean, what if one > of the backgrounds showed a telescopic picture of the Earth taken > from space and had the continents flipped over? Does anyone know > where this picture came from and if it has always been backwards? I > know it's a bit OCD, but I "fixed" the image on the computers where I > work ;^) . reversed left-for-right. However your point that the desktop image is reversed of what we see looking into the sky, and should be corrected, has merit.  
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