Welcome to Starship Asterisk!
You may have received a link to this thread in response to a recent submission to APOD. Posting your image to Starship Asterisk is encouraged but not required and guarantees that the image is seen by people whether it appears as an APOD or not and makes it eligible for inclusion in polls. Posting/not posting an image to Asterisk has no impact on its consideration as an APOD; Drs. Nemiroff and Bonnell select images independently for APOD.
Please note that by submitting your image to APOD, you are consenting for your image to be used on APOD in all of its forms unless you explicitly note otherwise. These include mirror sites, foreign language mirror sites as listed above, new media mirror sites as listed above, and direct APOD derivative products on the following social fan pages:
Facebook: Sky, Horizon, Universo (in Spanish);
Google Plus: APOD River.
We do recommend that you include a small copyright notice in a corner of your submitted images.
The APOD pages are collected annually on a CD-ROM, which is distributed free of charge to educators and the general public. If you would like your image to be considered for an APOD but do not want your image included in this CD-ROM collection, please state that in your post when you post your image.
You must be the image owner or have the copyright holder's explicit permission to post images.
To post an image that is already online:
- Please click the "Post Reply" button that appears at the top or bottom of the thread. (The "Quick Reply" screen is not as friendly for posting images.)
- Use the img, img2, or img3 tag. (I usually use the img2 tag.)
- Click the image tag you want; that will make the tags appear in the reply window.
- Put your cursor between the tags, and insert the URL of your image -- this should be the URL of just the image itself. Please test the link you want to use by putting it in the address bar of your browser. If you get MORE THAN the image in the browser window -- if you get an entire web page -- you don't have the URL to the image file and putting the URL you have between the img tags will NOT work.
- Click "Submit." Woo-hoo! You're done!
- Please keep linked images to ~400k or less!
Posts which link to images that take too long to load will be edited, the images reduced in size and attached, and a link provided to the original image. I love big images, but I love being able to see an image of any size even more, and I can't see it if my thin pipe to the Internet can't load it. Thanks for your cooperation!
Here is the code I use to post an online image on Asterisk; you do not need to use this! I post it just as an example. If you use this, please replace text as appropriate with your own information.
- Code: Select all
[size=120][b]Title of image[/b][/size]
URL of website, if any
Copyright: Your name
[img2]URL to image file (which must be to the image itself)[/img2]
If you are a member of Asterisk and have posted at least 10 posts , you can post an image that is not online by doing the following:
- Please click the "Post Reply" button that appears at the top or bottom of the thread. (The "Quick Reply" screen is not as friendly for posting images.)
- Click the "Upload attachment" tab that appears at the bottom of the "Post a Reply" screen (below the reply window) to upload your image.
- Click "Browse" to find the image on your computer; click the file name when you find it.
- Click "Add the file." This takes a few seconds, depending on how large your file is; the reply window will reload once it is uploaded.
- Position your cursor in the reply window; click "Place inline," which appears below the file name of your uploaded image.
- Click "Submit." Woo-hoo! You're done!
Hints which may be helpful
- Images must be under 250K if uploading them as attachments.
- Reduce the resolution to 72ppi
- Reduce the size to under 900 px in each direction (horizontally and vertically) or even less if necessary
- For more help, see common errors and Help on using BBCode
Please be mindful of those without fat pipes to the internet when posting images, whether linking to or attaching. If an image is over 400K or so, please consider reducing the image. Ways to reduce the size of the image file:
Please return to Recent Submissions before posting your images.
Thank you!
Owlice
Observation Deck Moderator
My thanks to Bogdan Jarzyna, Luc Perrot, Iván Éder, and Joan Gironès for translating this information!
Dziekuje! Merci! Köszönöm! ¡Gracias!
