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Alexandra,
Sorry my mistake. I tried it out again as you suggested and it worked like it should.
Thank you.
With the image viewable on SolarChat does this place any overhead on SolarChat ?
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David, that is exactly what I have just described. The image will be embedded in the post, when you click on it it goes to Flickr. Click on this one to see

Image2021-04-24 Halpha Solar disc f colour by Alexandra Hart, on Flickr

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No, the image is on the Flickr server and so the images load immediately on the forum :)

Sorry, your next post was on a page two :)

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I think that Alexandra is quite right. Flicker contains the image on their servers. So a user on SCF can merely point their image their. I can''t recall what their file size limit is. If SCF members get a Flickr account, they can host their own images. Although they may have to pay for an increased file limits.
Astrobin also host files but the member would have to pay a fee for that.
Dropbox also work like astrobin, but the amount of files space is considerably larger..

I suppose SCF could fund a common repository which could be hosted by Flickr or by Dropbox/Astrobin or a combination of them.
Someone could get all the information together; it should not be that expensive.

Flickr could have the advantage that the image is also displayed on the page without it costing SCF server space.


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Sun on 29th April 2021 sunrise: Dropbox test

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Hi All !
I tested my mobile setup again in my backgarden. Sunrise was 4.34 UT and I could see the sun easily from around 0500 UT from the first floor of my house. I setup my 60mm guidescope-Quark at around 0600 UT and maaged to get sun on visual by about 0615 as it was just emerging from the corner of my neighbours roof.
Seeing the sun was not bad really, although Meteoblue gave an seeing scale of 1.86 arcsecs, but seeing index2 was only 1 (the worst). I could see some detail, the main AR sunspot cluster, the proms on the top western edge near the north and a few filaments ok, the limb looked clear.

Here is what I saw (but from the NSO site). I am just testing the Dropbox facility. I am adding the link only, so so extra burden on SCF (maybe I should write less as well !)

If everyone uses Dropbox (basic free account gives you 2 GB), and if you pay a modest amount, you can get 2 Terabytes which should be enough for most of us.
Could this be a solution for SCF ?

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1x3r48gti862 ... h.jpg?dl=0


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You can right click on the Link, and choose - Open in New window or tab, so you can still continue in SCF forum afterwards.

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What is the modest amount for Dropbox that you refer to ??

Perhaps it would be far-easier and better to donate the same amount once per year to SolarChat as well as keeping everything in one place ??
If everyone here did just that, then the advantages of SolarChat would be much easier and secure too...

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Hi Terry,

https://www.dropbox.com/plans?tab=work& ... r#features

16.58 gbp per month (Professional) - 3 TB
So maybe not that modest ?

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Hello Magnus, thanks for the reply, but say for £8 per month x 12-months = £96 per annum, looks to me that, sending £100 as a donation to Solarchat once per year, is less of an arrangement into one's bank-account, which can so easily go wrong (and often does) !!!

Without any extra Log-in's/Passwords and a "all-in-one-location", would be a far-better resolution and say for just 100 of our SolarChatters sending such a donation - would equate to £10,000 towards Stephen Ramsden, being able to continue to run SolarChat as is. That's nearly half of the required funding required from just SolarChatters alone...

I prefer a simple and easy life to do what has been an excellent example of having the "all-in-one" posting/imaging/replies, questions and seeing answers in the one website, such as SolarChat...

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Hi,

I have a forum in Mexico and pay for a 3 year plan with " Unlimited Storage " US $ 360.00 for a 3 years period ... US $ 360-00 ~ £ 260.00 (~ £ 90 / year )

The only thing is to move the domain and the whole database to the new forum. For an experienced IT person in databases this is a job of about 30 -60 minutes.

I am hosting at www.bluehost.com ( I do not get a commission ) and I guess there are many other hosting service providers who have a good plans ... just a question of searching and comparing ..

Just my £ 0.02 pee and IMHO ...


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These "other" image hosting sites keep demanding my "inside leg measurement" in exchange for showing me a single image. Facebook, newspapers, magazines and others demand repeatedly that I sign in to see images placed there by other creative people than themselves.

They obviously all hate ad-blocks. Advertising now being the sole, flimsy foundation to the whole, tottering edifice we now call The Internet.

Google is charging me monthly for hosting my everyday photos. Even then I had to accept reduced size rather than original quality. The difference in image quality is obvious to me. Even on a normal HD screen. Meanwhile the Backup and Sync symbol churns endlessly on my screen. It takes ages for the Photos website to wake up and show me my own collection rather than a completely blank screen. I do have a fast 200Mbps fibre connection. So it isn't that. No idea if it can be made to share individual images without breaking anything.

Relevance in this context? Probably none. :lol:


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umm, sorry, just saw this after posting. I'll edit my post after it's reviewed.


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like eGray said above, if just 1% of the users of this forum and the Facebook group page donated around $100US yearly, we could not only completely fund the entire budget of our nonprofit in 28 countries but also pay for unlimited storage of everything forever. lol

But, alas, that is not the way things ever work out so we do the best with what we have.


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Hi all
Long time no post.
Does anybody have an idea how to post up images hosted by Astrobin please?

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Hello Steve
https://www.astrobin.com/accounts/register/ would be the best route..

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Hi
My fault for not being clear.

I have an Astrobin account and I post my images there.
What I would like to do is share my images here.
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If you open Filip's animation in a new tab it looks like it is linked from astrobin.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=31804

Maybe you could PM him and ask? or ask on the thread.
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The easiest way Steve, would be to open a "New Topic" in the "This is SolarChat" page.

Then enter your "Subject" preferably with a date of image(s) when acquired - for every-bodies ease of search.

Enter you text relating to your captures in the big oblong-box.

Go to "Full Editor Preview" or go to "Attachments" below the big oblong box and then "Add files" ...
Usually, this will take you to your desktop-page and show images that you may or could put on your desktop that you wish to post on SolarChat.

Then simply "Open" the file/image(s) that you wish to post.

It/they will show-up in the "FILENAME" section below the big oblong box (with options).

Then good idea to use the "Preview" tab to check all your entry and your pic(s) are correct.

If so, then "Submit" and await for your post to appear on that screen in light-blue. (may take a a few seconds)
If not shown then repeat the "Submit" procedure, as maybe more than one poster at the same, stops your post.

A reminder, that please only post as JPEG's as others may not be accepted, with an image-size limit of 2Mbyte per image and preferably small Mbytes of say up to no more than 1Mbyte each, as sufficient detail is easily seen by the viewers at even 200Kbytes approximately.

This is to conserve SolarChat's need to avoid having to apply paying-adverts from other sources due to the cost for this charity site - where over many-years there is a massive amount of data stored, which some may have to be lost due to maximum storage-space available at present... Thank you...

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Thanks Alexandra
I will if I cannot get it to work.


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I have a paid dropbox account I may try it the next time I image.


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Ibbo wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 1:31 am Hi all
Long time no post.
Does anybody have an idea how to post up images hosted by Astrobin please?

Steve
From your Astrobin account, you simply click on the Share button above the picture you want to post, then you can select to share for a forum mode, copy that link and then paste it into your post. It will not post the full image but will include a link and a thumbnail image to click on.


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Like this ?

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