A lot of people have asked this. It depends on what Internet browser you're using.
When you've clicked the reference number and gone into the screen with all the scary tables and a little picture with gridlines, you then click that little picture and you get a JPEG image. You right-click this. It's at this point that computers start varying!
Safari and (I'm told) Firefox produce a very short little grey menu, in the case of the computer I'm using at present with only 4 options on it, "Copy Image Address" being one of them. IF that's available, that's what you want. (Some also say "Copy Image Location" which is also fine.)
NB It's NOT the same as the web address at the top - that's actually only half the address you need! When people paste that into the forum, apparently some people see a small picture and others (such as me) merely see a link.
Right, so, if your browser is Internet Explorer or something else? The grey menu is quite long. Select "Properties". This gives you a big grey box full of options which are evidently not options, since you can't change any of them. About halfway down is "URL Address" on the left, and a web address on the right. Highlight the address on the right with your mouse. Then drag your mouse down, or scroll down, to be sure of capturing all of it - as half the address is hidden. You should get a very very long one: this is an example:
http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR6/getjpeg.aspx?ra=177.35351147&dec=34.04743172&scale=0.39612&width=512&height=512&opt=&query=(but all you can see is something like
http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=177.35351147&dec=34.04743172).
And now back to the forum.
Above the smileys are those two rows of icons. The second one in the second row offers you this [ i m g ] [ / i m g ] (without all those spaces) so put your long address [ i m g ] HERE [ / i m g ].
Happy posting!
