Clear Sky Chart
Sponsors
Sponsors are remarkably wise and kind people who have contributed money to help defray the costs of generating clear sky charts from CMC data. They have my deepest thanks:
| Winer Observatory |
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| Anonymous | Dr. John Sohl | ||
| Kaushik Iyer | Joseph Trerotola | Justin Bailo | ||
| Kok Chen | Michael Rudy |
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| Jane Houston Jones and Morris jones | Tim Kearsley | Southern Maryland Astronomical Society | ||
| David McDavid | BigMailer.io | |||
| Bert Stevens | Dr. Michael W. Ridenhour | Tiffiny Mansouri | ||
| Thomas Wroblewski | Wolf Creek Observatory | Jnani Cevvel | ||
| RASC Ottawa Centre | Joseph & Amy Galloway | Hans Flaatrud | ||
| Jim Woods | Max Mitchell | LKappukatt | ||
| Eric Rachut |
| Naperville Astronomical Association | ||
| Steve Altstadt | Southern California Desert Video Astronomers | Steve Altic | ||
| Philip Massey |
| The Wilkersons of Pittsburgh | ||
| William C. Bryson | John Harris | Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston | ||
| Steven Schlagel | Richard Seely | Jane Gnass | ||
| Jay and Maureen Huston of Long Mountain Ranch | Roger Menard | Jerry Spevak | ||
| The Noroads Garage | David ONeill | Victoria woods | ||
| Frank Willburn | Rob & Theresa Britschgi | UConn Physics | ||
| Sate Consulting LLC | Michael Rosolina |
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| Aaron Quick |
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| Jimmy Deetman | Oleg Rumiancev | Roxanne Kamin | ||
| Andy Schlei | Dave & Robert | Christopher Azar | ||
| Don Pensack | David T. and Jean M. Long | David Musser | ||
| Dee Jay Randall | Jim Mazur | Beth Colyear | ||
| Mark Simmons | Acton Sky Portal |
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| Mark C. | Kyle Goodwin | Karen Miller SLC | ||
| Liang Ming | David Oesper | ||
| Billy and Domitta Gladson | Steven LJ Russo | Mark Manner | ||
| Ace Printing Newfoundland | Brian M. Carroll | Anthony Scandurra | ||
| Tracy Tuttle | Michael Vander Vorst for the San Diego Astronomy Association | Chris Webb | ||
| Ken Sabatini |
| Brendan Bronzan | ||
| Mark Hanning-Lee | Rhonda Weeks | ||
| Ben Lutch | D. Craig Tupper | Matrix Engineering, Inc Industrial, Institutional and Commercial Electrical Engineering | ||
| RJH Photography | Nick Lloyd | Pedro | ||
| Glenn Littledale | Texas Astronomical Society |
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| Kenneth Stallard |
| Yves Barriere | ||
| Rick Evans | John & Cathy Moore | ||
| Ginny Stumborg-Rosin | Buffalo Astronomical Association |
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| Tim Povlick Santaluz Observatory | Art Gilbert | Diego Gomez | ||
| Dave Hasenauer | Brian Combs |
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| Charles S Morris | Oscar Echeverri | James Munson | ||
| Dr. Barbara G. Harris | Starfront Observatories Discord | Tom Neville | ||
| Claude Duplessis | Kevin Abeln | Robert & Elaine White | ||
| Martin Flynn | Bob Taylor | Ekim Unal | ||
| Derek Archer | Stephen Craig | A member of the Saint Petersburg Astronomy Club. | ||
| Messiernut | Bob Pitt | Birmingham Astronomical Society In memory of Mike Miller | ||
| Harry Sarber | Stuart Alldritt | Riverside Astronomical Society | ||
| Plumas Lake Observatory | John R. Duchek Ph.D. | Herman Zwirn | ||
| Valley of the Moon Observatory Association | Tri-Valley Stargazers Astronomy Club | deepskyobjects.com | ||
| Jerome Hollon | Carl Roland | Eyes on the Sky | ||
| Frank M. Klicar |
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| James Pond | John R. Crilly | The Unfrozen Caveman Astronomer | ||
| Kerrigan Singer and Ridley Singer | Martin Wilson | Gloucester Area Astronomy Club | ||
| Michael Person | Chris S | Todd Kunioka | ||
| Terrence Boyll | Bob Hillier | Noah Albers | ||
| Colin Orion Chandler | Dave LoPresti | Dick Post | ||
| Joel E. Guthals | Colin Orion Chandler | Donald Hague | ||
| Don Lashley | Astronomical Society of Long Island | ||
| Mark Biersack | Northern Cross Science Foundation | Gene and Charlotte Dupree | ||
| Leonard Christman | Kevin & Carmen Kasner | Snake Wash Farms Observatory | ||
| Gailen Marshall | Sola Virtus Observatory | George Palermo | ||
| Dodie Reagan | N3DXW & N3ED | ||
| Bruce C Taylor | John Rehrig | Michael Collins | ||
| Tom Hoffelder | Bill Manley |
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| Lauren Rogers | David Young | Eric Zeiner | ||
| Zack Whaley | Jim & Terry Turner | Michael Pataky | ||
| Jim & Lisa McKay | Jeff Alfeld | Tim Winkler | ||
| Steve Cariddi | Sun City Astronomers | Joseph Geiger | ||
| RIP Amigo | Deep Springs College | Justin Hendricks | ||
| Connor Ness | Gaboury Benoit | Steve Johnson, PhD | ||
| Screech Owl Hill Observatory | Nature Friend Magazine | Robert & Erika Moon and the IAS | ||
| Lauren Weiss | RASC Halifax Centre | Joseph Comeau | ||
| C. E. Steuart Dewar | Juno Porter | David Pettersson | ||
| Mike Clemens | Abhilash Sharma | Hai Du | ||
| Truman Hopper | Paul D Clarke | Tom Jaeger | ||
| DarkRangerTelescopeTours.com | William Durst | Kevin Wigell | ||
| Amanda Fonville | Allan Fenske | Alexandre Koukarine | ||
| Jerel Smith | John W. Palmieri | Jon Lawrence | ||
| City Lights Bookstore | Alan & Pamela | Jim Davis | ||
| Patrick Manley | Uberclock | Walnut Canyon Cabins | ||
| Klaus Peltsch | Jerry Hilburn | Walt Lickteig | ||
| Cary MacWilliams | Chadwick Daniels | Mark Warren | ||
| Luke Edens | Steve Paige | BillR | ||
| Ralf Patterson |
Why be a sponsor?
Sponsors are the reason why I can continue to maintain the clear sky charts. I try to thank sponsors by giving sponsored charts more updates, more forecasts, better reliability and more features. I also recognize sponsors on these pages. The complete details of what I do for sponsorship is long, but it is here. One person sponsoring a chart makes those benefits visible to everone.What does sponsorship pay for?
More importantly, sponsorship does not pay for the basic data from which I generate the charts. That data is offered to everyone for free by the Canadian Meteorological Centre though their public web page.Sponsorship does reduce some of the costs of preparing and maintaining thousands of charts, internet access, web hosting, computers, software development, bookkeeping fees, caffeine and ibuprofen.
How to be a sponsor.
No amount is too small. For each us$5.00 (about cad$7.08) I will list your name, for one month, on the clear sky chart of your choice. Sponsorship lasts longer for a larger donation. I also do extra things for sponsored charts including updating them earlier with more data. (I ask more from commercial sponsors and do more for commercial sponsors. Email me for details.)There are two ways to sponsor:
- Mail me a check. Please do not use the address printed in the February 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope page 69; it is wrong even with Stuart's correction. Instead, please Email
me for the correct snail mail address.
US dollar and personal checks are fine. Note that postage to me from the USA is us$1.50 and from Canada is can$1.07.
A check gets the greatest amount of your sponsorship to me but is slow.
- Or click on a button below to send money from your Paypal account or credit card.
All payments are HST/GST included (if applicable). Yes, silly tax rules require me to keep repeating that. See my Tax Rant.
- what name you'd like credited on this page. I can also link your web page, if you like.
- The names of any clear sky chart pages you'd like your sponsorship to be acknowledged on.
How much does it cost?
There is no minimum sponsorship amount. I am grateful for any support. Also, I do not repeatedly dun past sponsors for more money. I may email a sponsor once at the end of their sponsorship.But to be fair to all sponsors, I acknowledge sponsors on this page, and on chart pages they've chosen to support, for a time proportional to their sponsorship.