Hi! My name is Jeff Lunglhofer and I've created Night Sky Photography mainly out of frustration with the existing "free" on-line services available. Night Sky Photography is intended to be a community of serious astronomers and astrophotographers who have a desire to share their work, learn from one another, and just generally collaborate on all things Astronomy!
To support these goals, this web site offers a variety of services to members, all at absolutely no cost. Our only request is that no one abuse these services by posting objectionable materials, abusing our e-mail services, or violating any copyright laws.
While we are working to expand our services, we currently offer the following to members:
1) The ability to create custom photo albums in our Galleries pages. Our photo albums are driven by the excellent Coppermine package, and offers the ability to create mutiple albums, send e-cards, etc.
2) Free Web Mail, POP3-SSL, and SMTP-SSL service. Translation. . .free e-mail. All addresses will be <username>@nightskyphotography.com. We can also forward mail sent to your Night Sky Photography address to the e-mail address of your choice so that you can continue using your normal e-mail account, and have a permenant address with us.
One of my reasons to creating this site has been my frustration with the vast majority of the larger free on-line photo album sites. Read the user agreements! By posting you are surrendering copyright of your materials! Outrageous! All materials posted by Night Sky Photography members are Copyright by the member. Period.
Additionally, I hate advertisement driven e-mail. Free isn't free if you are constantly bothered by ads, and/or your privacy violated by automated scanning of your mail for targeted advertising purposes. Free should be free.
I initially plan to consider people for membership only by invitation or referral from an existing member. However, if you do with to be considered for membership, please contact me at: signups@nightskyphotography.com.