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 | 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 | ||
| Tiffiny Mansouri | Wolf Creek Observatory | RASC Ottawa Centre | ||
| Jnani Cevvel | Hans Flaatrud | 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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| Andy Schlei |
| Aaron Quick | ||
| Jimmy Deetman | Roxanne Kamin | Victoria woods | ||
| Dave & Robert | David T. and Jean M. Long | Sate Consulting LLC | ||
| Ace Printing Newfoundland | Christopher Azar | Don Pensack | ||
| David Musser | Jim Mazur | Mark Simmons | ||
| Acton Sky Portal |
| Mark Manner | ||
| Mark C. | Kyle Goodwin | Karen Miller SLC | ||
| Roger Menard | David Oesper | ||
| Billy and Domitta Gladson | Texas Astronomical Society | Steven LJ Russo | ||
| Dee Jay Randall | Brian M. Carroll | Beth Colyear | ||
| Tracy Tuttle | Michael Vander Vorst for the San Diego Astronomy Association |
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| Brendan Bronzan |
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| Email Marketing via Amazon SES | Mark Hanning-Lee | Ben Lutch | ||
| Tim Povlick Santaluz Observatory | Rhonda Weeks | Pedro | ||
| Glenn Littledale | Kenneth Stallard | Chris Webb | ||
| Yves Barriere | Rick Evans | ||
| Ginny Stumborg-Rosin | Buffalo Astronomical Association |
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| Art Gilbert | Matrix Engineering, Inc Industrial, Institutional and Commercial Electrical Engineering | Dave Hasenauer | ||
| Brian Combs |
| Charles S Morris | ||
| Oscar Echeverri | James Munson | Dr. Barbara G. Harris | ||
| Starfront Observatories Discord | John R. Duchek Ph.D. | Claude Duplessis | ||
| Ken Sabatini | Kevin Abeln | Robert & Elaine White | ||
| Plumas Lake Observatory |
| Diego Gomez | ||
| Bob Taylor | Derek Archer | Stephen Craig | ||
| RJH Photography | A member of the Saint Petersburg Astronomy Club. | Messiernut | ||
| Bob Pitt | Birmingham Astronomical Society In memory of Mike Miller |
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| Harry Sarber | Riverside Astronomical Society | Valley of the Moon Observatory Association | ||
| Tom Neville | Tri-Valley Stargazers Astronomy Club | Carl Roland | ||
| Frank M. Klicar | Martin Flynn | The Unfrozen Caveman Astronomer | ||
| Naperville Astronomical Association | Liang Ming |
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| Gloucester Area Astronomy Club | Chris S | Todd Kunioka | ||
| Terrence Boyll | Bob Hillier | Noah Albers | ||
| Dick Post | Joel E. Guthals | John R. Crilly | ||
| Lauren Rogers | James Pond | Martin Wilson | ||
| Don Lashley | Astronomical Society of Long Island | Mark Biersack | ||
| Northern Cross Science Foundation | Gene and Charlotte Dupree | Herman Zwirn | ||
| Snake Wash Farms Observatory | Sola Virtus Observatory | DarkRangerTelescopeTours.com | ||
| Jerome Hollon |
| Dodie Reagan | ||
| Eyes on the Sky | N3DXW & N3ED |
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| Bruce C Taylor | Michael Person | John Rehrig | ||
| Stuart Alldritt | Michael Collins | Gailen Marshall | ||
| Bill Manley |
| David Young | ||
| Eric Zeiner | Zack Whaley | Jim & Terry Turner | ||
| 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 | Joseph Comeau | ||
| C. E. Steuart Dewar | Kevin & Carmen Kasner | Mike Clemens | ||
| Jeff Alfeld | 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 | Klaus Peltsch | ||
| Jerry Hilburn | Walt Lickteig | Hai Du | ||
| Cary MacWilliams | Chadwick Daniels | Joseph Geiger | ||
| Hollywood Tours | Gaboury Benoit | 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 | Jerel Smith | ||
| Alexander Focsha | Ward Lake Observatory | Juno Porter | ||
| Paul D Clarke | Badlands Observatory | Mark Warren | ||
| Lexi Haley | Tom Jaeger | ||
| Uberclock | RASC Calgary Centre | Carl Tubbs | ||
| Ralf Patterson | N9ZL | City Lights Bookstore | ||
| Frank Willburn | Blake Nancarrow | ||
| Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society | John & Cathy Moore | Kurt Allen Fisher | ||
| Luke Edens |
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$6.90) 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.