I created a animated gif of Comet 46P. When I uploaded it to the website all but the first image of the GIF has been stripped away from the file. Does the file need to be a certain format or does this happen to all animated GIFs. (I created it using GIMP).
Also it was quite hard to create a GIF under 2MB. I really had to crop it hard. Is there any chance we could relax the file size rules a little?
Dominic, our wizard on all things IT (and other subjects), reported a while back that animated gifs are not supported on this site. You might be pleased to know though that the comet archive does support animated gifs. Michael Jaeger’s swooshing comet tails are a regular feature there. David S