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Your name will be listed on the Bicycle Astronomy webpage as a "Bookmark Supporter". You'll also receive a manila cardstock bookmark with the astronaut on a pennyfarthing logo hand stamped and the words "Bicycle Astronomy" typed with a 1948 Corona Sterling.

Mission Patch Supporter. As the name suggests, you'll get a custom-made mission patch with the Bicycle Astronomy Astronaut on a Pennyfarthing logo. And the cool bookmark and your name on the Bicycle Astronomy webpage!

In addition to all the benefits above, the "Bicycle Astronomy Computer*" level supporters will receive a limited edition Field Notes journal (in lined, unlined or graph for the geeky-at-heart) with the Bicycle Astronomy logo hand-printed on the cover. Beautiful and great for writing your astronomical observations (and the location/time of the star parties) in. Also holds the bookmark! *Computers, by the way, were people (usually women) who did the complex calculus for planning rocket trajectories. They did math, all day long. And got people to the moon and back!

The "Shirt Off Our Back Supporters" will get all that jazz above, plus a cool black cotton t-shirt, locally hand silk-screened with the Bicycle Astronomy logo in white.

Show Print Supporters: All the benefits of the above levels of support, plus a limited edition Bicycle Astronomy Show Print. The same letterpress-style broadsheet that advertised the county fair, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams. Depending on how it works out, it will either be an archival inkjet print or an actual letterpressed poster.

All the benefits of those other levels of course, plus an archival inkjet print of the famous "Earthrise" image from Apollo 8. I call this the "Unscheduled Change of Perspective" level of support. To understand why, here's a snippet from the official NASA transcript of the mission: Frank Borman (Mission Commander of Apollo 8): Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty. William Anders (Apollo 8 astronaut): Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled. Borman: (laughing) You got a color film, Jim?

Local Hero Level: All the benefits of the other rewards above, PLUS a super nice, USA-knit Merino Wool long sleeve shirt in black with the bicycle astronomy logo on it in white.

Venetian Power Patron level. When Galileo discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter through his telescope, he named them after the patriarch of the powerful Medici family of Florence. He was trolling for a Patron, and what makes a rich Venetian happier than having four mini-planets named after himself? Anyway "Medicean Moons" didn't stick...now we call them the Galilean Moons after the person whose discovery rocked the foundations of our understanding of the universe. Anyway, those who choose to become Patron level supporters of Bicycle Astronomy will get all the great swag above, PLUS: I'll come to an event of your choice (block party, reunion, etc) and give you your own personal star party (if you happen to live within 13 miles of Geneva and it's clear that night!--we can reschedule if not), AND I'll name one of the Galilean Moons after you and refer to it by that name for the duration of the project star parties. There are only four moons, otherwise known as Io, Europa, Gannymede and Callisto, so only four of you can have this honor.