# Credits and License

&kstars;

Program copyright 2001 Jason Harris kstars@30doradus.org

Contributors:

- Heiko Evermann heiko@evermann.de

- Thomas Kabelmann tk78@gmx.de

- Vincent Jagot vincent.jagot@free.fr

Data Sources:

- Object catalogs and planet position tables: NASA Astronomical Data Center

- Image and Information links provided by:

  - SEDS.org

  - HST Press releases

  - KPNO Advanced Observing Program

  - the Digitized Sky Survey

- Lunar images coyright 1999-2001 by Antonio Cidadao (used with permission)

- Inline images of M 17, M 31 and M 42 were adapted from images copyright 2000 by Jason Ware (used with permission).

References:

- Practical Astronomy With Your Calculator by Peter Duffet-Smith

- Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus

Special thanks: To the &kde; and &Qt; developers for providing the world with a peerless set of free API libraries. To the KDevelop team, for their excellent IDE, which made developing &kstars; so much easier and more fun. To everyone on the KDevelop message board and on irc.kde.org, for answering my frequent questions. Finally, to everyone who has submitted bug reports and other feedback. Thank you, everyone.

Documentation copyright 2001 Jason Harris kstars@30doradus.org

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