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diff --git a/kstars/README.images b/kstars/README.images new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c6904269 --- /dev/null +++ b/kstars/README.images @@ -0,0 +1,246 @@ + + Credits for Images used in KStars + + Jason Harris and the KStars team + +--------------------------------------------- + +KStars uses images in the skymap that are under copyright. +In most cases, these images are freely available for +non-commercial uses. When required, we have obtained +permission from the image's author. For each image, we +credit the author or source and provide a link to their +website, when available. + +Key: +FFNP: Free for non-profit/non-commercial use +FFE: Free for educational use +FWC: Free to use, with credit +UWP: Used with Permission +PD: Public Domain +CR: Authorship Credit Requested +GPL: Released under the General Public License + +DSS: Digitized Sky Survey +KPNO AOP: Kitt Peak Nat'l Observatory Advanced Observing Program +NOAO: National Optical Astronomical Observatories +AURA: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy +NSF: National Science Foundation +ESO/VLT: European Southern Observatory / Very Large Telescope +ING: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (La Palma) +2MASS: 2-Micron All-Sky Survey +NASA/GSFC:Nat'l Aeronautics and Space Admin./Goddard Spaceflight Center + + +Messier Catalog Inline Image Credits: + +M 1: Till Credner and Sven Kohle (FFNP) +M 2: Doug Williams, N. A.Sharp NOAO/AURA/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 3: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 4: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 5: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 6: N. A. Sharp, Mark Hanna, AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 7: no image +M 8: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 9: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 10: Till Credner and Sven Kohle (FFNP) +M 11: 2MASS (FWC) +M 12: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 13: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 14: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 15: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 16: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 17: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 18: no image +M 19: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 20: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 21: no image +M 22: N. A. Sharp NOAO/AURA/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 23: no image +M 24: no image +M 25: no image +M 26: no image +M 27: ESO/VLT (FFE/FFNP) +M 28: 2MASS (FWC) +M 29: no image +M 30: N. A. Sharp NOAO/AURA/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 31: Jason Ware (UWP) +M 32: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 33: Brad Wallis and Robert Provin (FFNP) +M 34: no image +M 35: no image +M 36: no image +M 37: no image +M 38: no image +M 39: no image +M 40: no image +M 41: no image +M 42: Brad Wallis and Robert Provin +M 43: no image +M 44: no image +M 45: Dean Jacobson (UWP) +M 46: no image +M 47: no image +M 48: no image +M 49: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 50: Till Credner and Sven Kohle (FFNP) +M 51: ING (FFNP) +M 52: no image +M 53: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 54: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 55: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 56: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 57: HST image (FWC) +M 58: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 59: N.A.Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 60: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 61: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 62: 2MASS (FWC) +M 63: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 64: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 65: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 66: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 67: Jan Wisniewski (FFNP) +M 68: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 69: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 70: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 71: Till Credner and Sven Kohle (FFNP) +M 72: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 73: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 74: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 75: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 76: Scott J. Wolk and Nancy R. Adams (FFE/FFNP) +M 77: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 78: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 79: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 80: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 81: N.A.Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 82: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 83: ESO/VLT (FWC) +M 84: Grasslands Observatory (UWP) +M 85: N. A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 86: Grasslands Observatory (UWP) +M 87: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 88: N. A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 89: N. A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 90: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 91: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 92: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 93: N. A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 94: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 95: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 96: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 97: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 98: N. A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 99: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 100: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 101: N.A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF +M 102: no image +M 103: Hillary Mathis, N. A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 104: ESO/VLT (FWC) +M 105: N. A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) +M 106: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 107: DSS (FFE/FFNP) +M 108: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 109: KPNO AOP (FFNP) +M 110: N. A. Sharp AURA/NOAO/NSF (FFE/FFNP) + + +Planets Inline Image Credits: +Mercury: NASA/GSFC (PD/CR) +Venus: NASA/GSFC (PD/CR) +Moon: based on a photo contributed by Frank Stefani (GPL) +Mars: NASA and Hubble Heritage team (PD/CR) +Jupiter: NASA/GSFC (PD/CR) +Saturn: NASA and Hubble Heritage team (PD/CR) +Uranus: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona) and NASA (PD/CR) +Neptune: NASA Voyager 2 (PD/CR) +Pluto: NASA/GSFC (PD/CR) + + +Credits and permissions, listed by author/source: + + +Individual Authors: + +Till Credner and Sven Kohle: http://www.allthesky.com +Images copyright Till Credner and Sven Kohle. They may be used for +private and non-profit educational purposes. + +Martin Germano: http://home.earthlink.net/~mcgermano/ +Images copyright Martin Germano. Used with permission. + +Dean Jacobson: http://www.astrophoto.net +Images copyright Dean Jacobson. Used with permission. + +Brad Wallis and Robert Provin: +http://voltaire.csun.edu/wallis_provin.html +Images copyright Brad Wallis and Robert Provin. They may be used +for non-profit purposes, as long as proper credit is given. + +Jason Ware: http://www.galaxyphoto.com +Images copyright Jason Ware. Used with permission. + +Jan Wisniewski: http://jwisn.freeyellow.com/list.htm +Images copyright Jan Wisniewski. They may be used +for non-commercial purposes, as long as proper credit is given. + +Scott J. Wolk and Nancy R. Adams: +http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~swolk/pretty.html +Image copyright Scott J. Wolk and Nancy R. Adams. They may be used +for non-commercial purposes, as long as proper credit is given. + + +Organizations: + +DSS: http://archive.stsci.edu/dss/index.html +The Digitized Sky Survey is in the public domain. The DSS +was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. +Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based +on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on +Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope. The plates were +processed into the present compressed digital form with the +permission of these institutions. + +KPNO AOP: http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/ +The Advanced Observing Program at Kitt Peak National Observatory +is a public program in which participants use the high-tech +resources of the Kitt Peak Visitor Center Observatory to create +their own film or digital images of objects in the night sky. All +images are freely available for non-commercial use in electronic +form, but may not be printed on paper without written permission. + +ESO/VLT: http://www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/ +Images taken using the European Southern Observatory's +Very Large Telescope in Chile. Images published in the ESO +Image Gallery may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes. + +HST Public Pictures: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html +HST Image Gallery: http://hubble.stsci.edu/gallery/ +Hubble Heritage Project: http://heritage.stsci.edu/ +Images published by the Space Telescope Science Institute are +in the public domain. + +Grasslands Observatory: http://www.3towers.com/index.htm +Owned by Tim Hunter, who operates the observatory with +James McGaha. Images of the entire Messier catalog as well as many +NGC objects are published on their website. Images in KStars are +used with permission. + +Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes Gallery: +http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/science/pictures.html +Images courtesy of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma. + +NOAO/AURA/NSF Image Gallery: +http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/ +NOAO allows reproduction, authorship of derivative works, and other +transformations of the original work strictly for educational and +research purposes without further permission. + +2MASS Messier objects: +http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/messiercat.html +Images obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), +a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared +Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, +funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the +National Science Foundation. |