Set up your public identity, astronomy interests, avatar and banner, interface preferences and privacy defaults.
Your profile is the member-facing home for who you are and what you do in astronomy. Astro Corner separates profile details, interface preferences and privacy controls so you can decide both how the site feels and what other people can see.
Build your astronomy profile
Use Profile & Interests to add the details you want other members to know about you. You can add a display name, short biography, public location, astronomy interests, favourite object, social links and other optional astronomy-focused profile fields.
Your username remains your stable @name for mentions and profile links even if you change the way your display name appears.
Keep location text as broad as you are comfortable sharing.
Use interests and astronomy details to help other members find common ground with you.
Blank optional fields simply stay out of the way rather than producing an incomplete-looking profile.
Avatar and profile banner
Upload an avatar to represent you throughout feeds, comments, messaging and member lists. Profile banners give the top of your profile a wider visual identity.
After uploading, use the available positioning controls to choose the crop/focal position so faces, telescopes or other important parts of the image remain visible at different screen sizes.
Interface preferences
Preferences control how Astro Corner looks and behaves for your account. You can choose interface language, theme behaviour, density, font scale, coordinate display and other available usability options.
The theme control in the top bar is a quick shortcut; the Preferences page is where you set the saved behaviour for future visits.
Privacy defaults
Privacy settings let you choose defaults for profile visibility and common types of content. Individual records can still offer their own visibility selector when you create them.
Treat precise observing locations differently from a public location label. A profile can say “North Yorkshire” while a private observing location keeps exact coordinates restricted.
Public means content can be discoverable according to that feature.
Friends/followers/member visibility only applies where the relevant feature offers it.
Unlisted is useful when you want a direct-link record without normal discovery.
Only Me/private options are intended for personal records where offered.
Review the visibility selector when creating something location-sensitive, especially observing records and media.
Public pages, Discover & search engines
Astro Corner can expose genuinely public astronomy records through Discover, public profile/content pages, the XML sitemap and search-engine notifications. Public records may therefore appear in normal web search and AI-powered search services that crawl the public web.
This does not change the audience of private, friends-only, members-only or otherwise restricted records. Search and public discovery are consumers of the existing visibility rules, not a way around them.
Public profile visibility is important when a public record would identify you as its author.
Public Passport, Statistics and yearly-recap sharing are separate opt-in controls where offered.
Unlisted records are intended for direct-link sharing and are not deliberately promoted through normal public discovery.
Exact private observing coordinates are not published merely because a related public page exists.
Before making a long-term astronomy record public, read the page as though a search engine visitor who does not know you has opened it.
Build your astronomy profile
Use Profile & Interests to add the details you want other members to know about you. You can add a display name, short biography, public location, astronomy interests, favourite object, social links and other optional astronomy-focused profile fields.
Your username remains your stable @name for mentions and profile links even if you change the way your display name appears.
Keep location text as broad as you are comfortable sharing.
Use interests and astronomy details to help other members find common ground with you.
Blank optional fields simply stay out of the way rather than producing an incomplete-looking profile.
Avatar and profile banner
Upload an avatar to represent you throughout feeds, comments, messaging and member lists. Profile banners give the top of your profile a wider visual identity.
After uploading, use the available positioning controls to choose the crop/focal position so faces, telescopes or other important parts of the image remain visible at different screen sizes.
Interface preferences
Preferences control how Astro Corner looks and behaves for your account. You can choose interface language, theme behaviour, density, font scale, coordinate display and other available usability options.
The theme control in the top bar is a quick shortcut; the Preferences page is where you set the saved behaviour for future visits.
Privacy defaults
Privacy settings let you choose defaults for profile visibility and common types of content. Individual records can still offer their own visibility selector when you create them.
Treat precise observing locations differently from a public location label. A profile can say “North Yorkshire” while a private observing location keeps exact coordinates restricted.
Public means content can be discoverable according to that feature.
Friends/followers/member visibility only applies where the relevant feature offers it.
Unlisted is useful when you want a direct-link record without normal discovery.
Only Me/private options are intended for personal records where offered.
Review the visibility selector when creating something location-sensitive, especially observing records and media.
Public pages, Discover & search engines
Astro Corner can expose genuinely public astronomy records through Discover, public profile/content pages, the XML sitemap and search-engine notifications. Public records may therefore appear in normal web search and AI-powered search services that crawl the public web.
This does not change the audience of private, friends-only, members-only or otherwise restricted records. Search and public discovery are consumers of the existing visibility rules, not a way around them.
Public profile visibility is important when a public record would identify you as its author.
Public Passport, Statistics and yearly-recap sharing are separate opt-in controls where offered.
Unlisted records are intended for direct-link sharing and are not deliberately promoted through normal public discovery.
Exact private observing coordinates are not published merely because a related public page exists.
Before making a long-term astronomy record public, read the page as though a search engine visitor who does not know you has opened it.