Sharing Photos

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OK, let me be perfectly honest here: I take loads of photos and, if you include solar sunspot drawings, it works out about two per day. As the Sun changes a lot, I like to record sunspot patterns and features in hydrogen alpha light daily, weather, etc permitting.

I also like to do lunar photographs daily but tend to save the detailed close-ups for the weekend.

However, I've come to the sad conclusion that not many people will wade through thousands of solar photos.

I think most astronomers' attention is drawn to deep sky photographs. I don't have the skill and tools to do long exposure stuff but will be doing some 30 second guided exposures once the dark nights are back.

On the other hand, I'm aware at some people don't like seeing the same objects over and over again. When the BBC board was more active I remember someone moaning about the deluge of M42 photos. OK, I've done it.

As I'm having a bit of a time balancing issue at the moment and I wish to do a smaller volume of higher quality photos, I'm going to take a higher number of frames of a smaller number of objects. I think this will also be of more interest to other board members.

Although I post every photo that shows any sort of result, I'm now only tweeting ones of particular interest.

I just hope I don't fall back into bad habits!