My C elegans is on the north facing windowsill. Well, i thought it was N facing but it gets a fair amount of sun so its more like NW ish!

Anyway, I believe this palm can take  shade, and its fronds have sufered sun burn in the past due to a mistake on my part,but is producing newer, bigger darker fronds now.

It seems OK where it is but Im still woried about the risk of sunburn so should I move it completely out of the way of sunlight? (on a shelf, away from the window for example)

Larry, my mom has a C. elegans (& C. sefreizii) planted on the north side of her house.  When the angle of the sun changes in summer this side of the house actually sees full sun late in the afternoon.  The Chamaedorea's do burn at first but seem to harden off after a while and acclimate.  You're little baby there might not be able to handle it yet but they can take a small amount of late afternoon or early morning sun.  You're gonna have to keep an eye on it and see what works for you.  Sometimes what works for you dosen't for others, and vice versa.

Thanks Matty

From what I've seen at various people's houses the one's that look best are in bright indirect light, so a well lit room, but away from the window would seem like the ideal place.  As they get bigger more sun is probably not a problem, but bearing in mind that they are an understory, rainforest palm, they wouldn't see much if any sun in habitat.