SBIG is pleased to offer its social media channels to SBIG camera owners and users as a place to share their images. Here are the basic guidelines for submitting images to share, whether you are uploading them directly to our Facebook page or sending them to us to share on our SBIG.com blog.

Please include some or all of the following information. An asterisk indicates required information:

• *Name of image owner
• *Best way to contact you (e-mail or phone)
• *Statement that the submitter is owner of the image being submitted and gives SBIG permission to share it. (“I own this image, and give SBIG permission to share it.”) We can only accept images from owners. Please do not submit “on behalf of” friends.
• *Image subject
• *Equipment used (Which SBIG camera used, and include telescope, mount and any other accessories as appropriate)
• *Location and date
• Method (Exposure time, set-up challenges, as appropriate)
• Software used, if applicable
• Comments (Background or back-story: was it part of a trip, issues faced and solved, information about the subject, etc.)

If you upload an image to Facebook, we work on the honor system. Please include a statement that you created the image you are sharing. If any disputes arise about image ownership, SBIG will remove the image in question, regardless of the resolution of the dispute.

If you wish to have us consider your image for sharing on the SBIG blog, send your submission in an e-mail to images@sbig.com

• We will select a handful each month that are stellar images, or have an interesting “back story.”
• The owners of the selected will be notified before their image appears in our social communities.
• Everyone selected for the blog will be sent an official SBIG tee-shirt.

The format on the blog will present the photo at the top of the post, and an information table underneath:

If you have any questions about submitting images to SBIG for social sharing, send a note to Kern Lewis at kern@aplegen.com