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The purpose of this page is to give credit and thanks to the people, places, and things that have helped me to make this site. There is no real order to this listing, I have simply credited those that have come to mind as I write. Links to these people and places can be found under the Cool Links page. Undoubtedly there are people I have forgotten but they will be added as I remember or am told that they should be there.

I want to first thank my advisor this summer (96), Cindy Blaha, without whose help this page would have never come into existence. Cindy also was the one to give me the chance to start working with CCD's, and taught me most of the stuff I know, allowing me to take the images that you see in this site.

I have to thank Kelsey Johnson, too. Kelsey helped me figure out how to run the LX200 when we first got it, and she was the one to introduce me to Cindy, and to tell me that I should get into Cindy's special project group for working with CCD's. As a clueless frosh, I was, and am even now more so, thankful for that advice.

While I'm on the topic of CCD's, they wouldn't be much fun without a telescope, and so I have to thank Joel Weisberg, who was my Professor for Observational Astronomy, which is the class where I learned to use the telescopes.

Thanks also go to Doug Foxgrover. A very small part of Doug's job is to maintain our server here in the Physics and Astronomy Department, and it was he who helped me to put our site on the web so that the rest of the world could see it. Doug is also the one who took the beautiful picture of Goodsell that appears on the main page of this site. I later modified the picture using Photoshop to add in the star field and the type that appears at the top of the picture.

The starfield that I used in that picture of Doug's was from the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" site.

While I'm on the topic of Photoshop, I must say that Photoshop has been a huge help to me, and I have enjoyed using it. This site would have been nothing without Photoshop.

Thanks go to Sean Fox who gave us the Gif89a plug in for Photoshop which allows us to save our gifs in interlaced format, so they do that cool "coming into focus thing" when you download a page. Sean also helped out by allowing us to log into the network over at the cmc, which made my life much easier when transferring files from there to here (Goodsell).

Most of the information under the What's Up link came from Sky and Telescope and Mercury magazines, two wonderful resources.

Thanks to Mark Greene, the former archivist here at Carleton College, for writing A Science Not Earthbound: A Brief History Of Astronomy At Carleton College which appears under the History Of Goodsell Observatory link.

Thanks also to the present archivist Eric Hillemman, and especially Ben Flaumenhaft for the great pictures that you see in the Goodsell Photo Album link.

Thanks to Netscape, the truly superior web browser.

Thanks to Elizabeth Castro and her book HTML for the World Wide Web which helped me learn a lot about HTML.

Thanks also to all the people out there who have made their own pages, from which I got a lot of ideas, and learned how to implement those ideas by looking at their source.

Thanks to Mallas and Kreimer who wrote the book The Messier Album from which much of the information under the CCD images comes from.

Where would we be without Voyager, the computer program. Voyager is not only a useful source of information, but is also a great help when I'm out on the pier observing and imaging.

The backgrounds you see on all the pages are from the following observatories: The white starfield is from the Mount Laguna Observatory homepage, and the black starfield is from the Dunsink Observatory homepage. Thanks guys.

Thanks to Texture Land for some of their backgrounds which were used in the top and bottom buttons as well as in the credits image above.

The red dots that appear next to links came from the Lasilla Obsevatory homepage. I took the dot and changed the color in Photoshop to make the blue dots. The blue marble lines that are on some of the pages came from the Isaac Newton Telescope homepage, and I made the red ones in Photoshop.

Thanks to the people at WebCounter who provided us with our webcounter, which, if you ask me is a good way to keep track of the traffic that we are getting.

All other photos were taken by myself, mostly, or put togther by me (Nathanael Motz) in Photoshop. The pages were written in Microsoft Word, and all the main work was done on a Power Machintosh 7200. There are many other people that I could thank, but here is not the place. For those you will have to see my own homepage which is not even in the creation phase yet, but someday.

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