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by magarlick
Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:17 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Video Submissions
Replies: 709
Views: 2446533

Re: Video Submissions

This is an animation of the Philae probe on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The probe is expected to land on the comet nucleus in November 2014, after being dispatched from the Rosetta mothership in orbit around the comet. The comet is only moderately active at present, and will not ...
by magarlick
Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:15 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Video Submissions
Replies: 709
Views: 2446533

Re: Video Submissions

Weird. I hovered over the Youtube BBcode and saw that the syntax was exactly as I was trying this morning, including the full URL. It wasn't working and I tried many times. Just tried it again and it works with the full video URL, https or http. Oh well. Thanks.
by magarlick
Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:34 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Video Submissions
Replies: 709
Views: 2446533

Re: Video Submissions

Thank you. Amazed that I could find this information, which is not at all obvious, anywhere on this site.

M.
by magarlick
Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:51 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Video Submissions
Replies: 709
Views: 2446533

How on Earth do you embed YouTube?

Hi I am trying to submit a youtube video. I can't embed it. I paste the URL then add the youtube tags before and after, but when I preview I don't see the video, only the code, which isn't clickable. What am I doing wrong? The above procedure works perfectly well when embedding jpgs. With some Googl...