# Credits and License

&kstars;

Program copyright 2001-2002 Jason Harris kstars@30doradus.org

Contributors:

- Heiko Evermann heiko@evermann.de

- Thomas Kabelmann tk78@gmx.de

- Mark Hollomon mhh@mindspring.com

- Pablo de Vicente pvicentea@wanadoo.es

- Carsten Niehaus cniehaus@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 copyright 1999-2001 by Antonio Cidadao (used with permission)

- Inline images of M 17 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, the KDE mailing lists, and on irc.kde.org, for answering my frequent questions. Thank you to Anne-Marie Mahfouf, for inviting KStars to join the KDE-Edu module. Finally, thanks to everyone who has submitted bug reports and other feedback. Thank you, everyone.

Documentation copyright 2001-2002 Jason Harris kstars@30doradus.org

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