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 | ||
| Joseph Trerotola | Kaushik Iyer | Kok Chen | ||
| Justin Bailo | Michael Rudy | |||
| Jane Houston Jones and Morris jones | Tim Kearsley | ||
| Southern Maryland Astronomical Society | David McDavid | Bert Stevens | ||
| BigMailer.io | Dr. Michael W. Ridenhour | Thomas Wroblewski | ||
| Wolf Creek Observatory | Tiffiny Mansouri | RASC Ottawa Centre | ||
| Jnani Cevvel | Hans Flaatrud |
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| Jim Woods | Max Mitchell | Eric Rachut | ||
| Steve Altstadt | Southern California Desert Video Astronomers | LKappukatt | ||
| Philip Massey | Steve Altic |
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| The Wilkersons of Pittsburgh | Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston | William C. Bryson | ||
| John Harris | Joseph & Amy Galloway | Jane Gnass | ||
| Jay and Maureen Huston of Long Mountain Ranch | The Noroads Garage | Richard Seely | ||
| Jerry Spevak |
| Rob & Theresa Britschgi | ||
| David ONeill | Michael Rosolina |
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| Aaron Quick | Jimmy Deetman | Roxanne Kamin | ||
| Victoria woods | David T. and Jean M. Long | Ace Printing Newfoundland | ||
| Sate Consulting LLC | Christopher Azar | Don Pensack | ||
| David Musser | Jim Mazur | Mark Simmons | ||
| Acton Sky Portal | Mark Manner |
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| Mark C. | Kyle Goodwin | Karen Miller SLC | ||
| Texas Astronomical Society |
| Roger Menard | ||
| Best Newsletter Platforms | Email Marketing via Amazon SES | David Oesper | ||
| Billy and Domitta Gladson | Steven LJ Russo | Beth Colyear | ||
| Dee Jay Randall | Brian M. Carroll | Tracy Tuttle | ||
| Michael Vander Vorst for the San Diego Astronomy Association |
| Brendan Bronzan | ||
| Mark Hanning-Lee | Ben Lutch | ||
| Tim Povlick Santaluz Observatory | Pedro | Glenn Littledale | ||
| Chris Webb | Kenneth Stallard |
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| Yves Barriere | Rick Evans | Ginny Stumborg-Rosin | ||
| Buffalo Astronomical Association | Rhonda Weeks |
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| Dave Hasenauer | Brian Combs | Matrix Engineering, Inc Industrial, Institutional and Commercial Electrical Engineering | ||
| Charles S Morris | Oscar Echeverri | James Munson | ||
| Dr. Barbara G. Harris | John R. Duchek Ph.D. | Starfront Observatories Discord | ||
| Claude Duplessis | Ken Sabatini | Plumas Lake Observatory | ||
| Kevin Abeln | Robert & Elaine White |
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| RJH Photography | Diego Gomez | Bob Taylor | ||
| 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 | Riverside Astronomical Society | ||
| Valley of the Moon Observatory Association | Tom Neville | Naperville Astronomical Association | ||
| Tri-Valley Stargazers Astronomy Club | Carl Roland | Frank M. Klicar | ||
| Martin Flynn | The Unfrozen Caveman Astronomer |
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| Liang Ming | Gloucester Area Astronomy Club | Dave & Robert | ||
| Chris S | Todd Kunioka | Terrence Boyll | ||
| Bob Hillier | Noah Albers | Dick Post | ||
| Lauren Rogers | Joel E. Guthals | Don Lashley | ||
| Astronomical Society of Long Island | DarkRangerTelescopeTours.com | Mark Biersack | ||
| Northern Cross Science Foundation | Gene and Charlotte Dupree | Herman Zwirn | ||
| Snake Wash Farms Observatory | Sola Virtus Observatory | Jerome Hollon | ||
| Dodie Reagan | Eyes on the Sky | ||
| N3DXW & N3ED |
| John R. Crilly | ||
| Bruce C Taylor | Martin Wilson | James Pond | ||
| Michael Person | John Rehrig | Stuart Alldritt | ||
| Michael Collins | Bill Manley |
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| David Young | Eric Zeiner | Zack Whaley | ||
| Jim & Lisa McKay | Tim Winkler | Colin Orion Chandler | ||
| Dave LoPresti | Steve Cariddi | Sun City Astronomers | ||
| Colin Orion Chandler | RIP Amigo | Donald Hague | ||
| Deep Springs College | Justin Hendricks | Screech Owl Hill Observatory | ||
| Nature Friend Magazine | RASC Halifax Centre | Gailen Marshall | ||
| Joseph Comeau | C. E. Steuart Dewar | Kevin & Carmen Kasner | ||
| Mike Clemens | Walnut Canyon Cabins | Sue and Alan French | ||
| John Winston Garth | deepskyobjects.com | William Durst | ||
| Kevin Wigell | Amanda Fonville | Allan Fenske | ||
| Jon Lawrence | Alan & Pamela | Tom Hoffelder | ||
| Jim Davis | Patrick Manley | Gaboury Benoit | ||
| Klaus Peltsch | Jerry Hilburn | Walt Lickteig | ||
| Cary MacWilliams | Hollywood Tours | Jeff Alfeld | ||
| Joseph Geiger | Steve Paige | Connor Ness | ||
| Gary D. Maupin |
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| Robert & Erika Moon and the IAS | Albany Area Amateur Astronomers | David Pettersson | ||
| Indiana Astronomical Society | Alexander Focsha | Ward Lake Observatory | ||
| Juno Porter | Chadwick Daniels | Paul D Clarke | ||
| Hai Du | Badlands Observatory |
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| Lexi Haley | Tom Jaeger | Uberclock | ||
| RASC Calgary Centre | Carl Tubbs | City Lights Bookstore | ||
| Ralf Patterson | N9ZL |
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| Jerel Smith | Frank Willburn | Blake Nancarrow | ||
| Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society | John & Cathy Moore | Kurt Allen Fisher | ||
| Luke Edens | Anthony Scandurra | George Palermo | ||
| Andy Schlei | BillR | J Perez | ||
| Allen Grundmeier |
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$6.89) 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.