For Partners

Make the night part of your story.

A place to stay. A gathering under the stars. A story that takes someone somewhere new. Find the right way to bring it to life with Stella.

For hotels & destinations Start a conversation. Scope and availability are confirmed individually.
Hotels & Destinations

Help guests see what makes your night special.

Start with what a guest can actually do: where to observe, what equipment they can access, and which programs need a reservation. Stella connects that story with travelers planning around the sky.

Browse the astronomy-stays collection

List or update a property

Share your stay, guest astronomy details, official links, or a correction for catalog review.

Submit property details

Develop a night-sky guest experience

Shape dark-sky practices, choose telescopes, compare smart telescope guest rentals, or explore a larger observatory and dome project.

Explore astronomy advisory

Plan an astronomy program

Explore lighting, telescope choices, staff care and observatory feasibility with Stella advisory.

Explore astronomy advisory

Understand Stella assessments

Read what One, Two, and Three Sky Keys mean, including the evidence behind an assessment.

Read the assessment method

Measurement & monitoring

Discuss a site's measurement needs and potential UMBRA collaboration. Monitoring is in development; this is an inquiry, not a deployment booking.

Discuss measurement needs
More ways to work together

Good nights take good collaborators.

Choose the conversation that fits your program, craft, or idea.

Find your people

Astronomy Clubs

Help people find your club, visit your official website, and take part in your public observing nights. Submit a directory listing, update your details, or introduce a collaboration.

Share your official website, country, city or region, and a public contact. Directory entries are reviewed before publication; inclusion does not imply a partnership.

Send club details Submit a star party or program
Bring the sky closer

Telescope & Imaging Companies

For telescope makers, optics brands, camera and mount manufacturers, retailers, and software teams. Explore equipment collaborations, supported integrations, educational programs, and field storytelling with Stella.

Tell us about the product, intended audience, development stage, and proposed scope. Compatibility, testing, commercial terms, and availability are agreed individually.

Discuss an equipment collaboration Other ways to reach Stella
Bring people together

Event Hosts & Educators

For astronomy clubs, observatories, workshop instructors, schools, and festival organizers. Share a confirmed program or discuss a future collaboration.

Include the organizer, venue, dates, participant requirements, and an official registration link when available.

Discuss a program or event
Tell a destination's story

Tourism Boards & Brands

Start a conversation about destination campaigns, relevant sponsorships, and collaborations connected to astronomy, travel, and the night.

Campaign scope, commercial relationships, timing, and deliverables are agreed individually. A partnership does not purchase editorial coverage.

Discuss a destination campaign
Commercial production

Stella Studios

Bring a photography, film, timelapse, or storytelling brief. Explore the production practice and send the scope, location, timing, usage, and budget for review.

Production inquiries are open. Crew, access, schedule, and availability are confirmed before a commission is accepted.

Start a production brief
The people in the field

Creator Network

Photographers, filmmakers, writers, producers, and science communicators can register interest in Stella's developing private contributor network.

Share your region, specialties, portfolio, and a proposed contribution. Applications are reviewed individually; assignments and commissions are agreed separately.

Send a creator application
Build what comes next

Technology Partnerships

Discuss hardware development, integrations, testing relationships, or potential UMBRA and tracker collaborations. Start with the problem, the technical context, and the evidence you can share.

These are development conversations. Equipment sales, guest rentals, remote observing and monitoring require separate provider arrangements; this form starts a development conversation.

Discuss a technology collaboration
Start a conversation

Share the idea.
Make the introduction.

Tell us who you are, where you work, and what you would like to do with Stella. Choose the application that fits your organization or craft.

  1. Introduce yourselfGive us the details and official links that help us understand your proposal.
  2. Send it for reviewA receipt confirms your application reached Stella. It does not confirm a listing, partnership, or commission.
  3. Agree on the next stepScope, evidence, timing, and any commercial terms are discussed individually.

Your contact details and brief are used to review and respond to this inquiry. Read the privacy policy.

Application type

Hotel or destination application

Fields marked * are required. Keep the proposal brief; links can point to supporting information.

An official site or portfolio link. http and https links are accepted.

Observing space, guides, telescope access, or the experience you want to develop.

Tell us whether this is a listing, correction, guest experience, or assessment inquiry. Up to 1,000 characters.

A clear relationship

The evidence stays visible.

A paid partnership, a Stella assessment, an external DarkSky designation, and a sky measurement each tell a different story. We keep those meanings separate so visitors can understand what supports a claim.