Contributors

© 2001-2023 the KStars Team

KStars is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.

Original Authors:

  • Jason Harris <kstars AT 30doradus DOT org>, Original Author
  • Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja AT ikarustech DOT com>, Maintainer, Major code contributions, INDI/Ekos

Contributors:

  • Akarsh Simha <akarsh DOT simha AT kdemail DOT net>, Major Code contributions
  • Hy Murveit <hy AT murveit DOT com>, Major Code contributions
  • Eric Dejouhanet <eric DOT dejouhanet AT gmail DOT com>, Major Code contributions
  • Wolfgang Reissenberger <sterne-jaeger AT t-online DOT de>, Major Code contributions
  • Robert Lancaster, Major Code contributions
  • James Bowlin <bowlin AT mindspring DOT com>, Major code contributions, reorganization of code, HTM
  • Heiko Evermann <heiko AT evermann DOT de>, Major code contributions
  • Thomas Kabelmann <tk78 AT gmx DOT de>, Major code contributions
  • Pablo de Vicente <pvicentea AT wanadoo DOT es>, Major code contributions
  • Mark Hollomon <mhh AT mindspring DOT com>, Major code contributions
  • Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus AT kde DOT org>, Major code contributions
  • Luciano Montanaro, Additional Data / Catalogs, Patches
  • Glenn Becker, Additional Data / Catalogs
  • Carl Knight <sleepless DOT knight AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>, Abell Planetary Catalog
  • Médéric Boquien <mboquien AT free DOT fr>, Code contributions
  • Jérôme Sonrier <jsid AT emor3j DOT fr DOT eu DOT org>, Code contributions
  • Alexey Khudyakov <alexey DOT skladnoy AT gmail DOT com>, Code contributions
  • Prakash Mohan <prakash DOT mohan AT kdemail DOT net>, The Observation Planner and Execute feature
  • Henry de Valence <hdevalence AT gmail DOT com>, OpenGL painting
  • Victor Carbune <victor DOT carbune AT kdemail DOT net>, SQLite backend for object data storage and retrieval, major contributions
  • Samikshan Bairagya <samikshan AT gmail DOT com>, Supernovae in KStars
  • Rafał Kułaga <rl DOT kulaga AT gmail DOT com>, Maintainer, Better printing support for finder charts
  • Łukasz Jaskiewicz, Refactoring of OAL support

GSoC, SoCiS, SoK students

A listing of our Google Summer of Code, ESA SoCiS, and Season of KDE students:

  • Artem Fedoskin (GSoC 2016): KStars Lite
  • Cojocaru Raphael (GSoC 2016): KStars on Windows
  • Akarsh Simha (GSoC 2008): 100 million stars
  • Prakash Mohan (GSoC 2009): Observation planner
  • Victor Cărbune (GSoC 2010): SQLite Database for Objects
  • Henry de Valence (GSoC 2010): OpenGL rendering backend
  • Rafał Kułaga (GSoC 2011): Professional finder chart printing
  • Samikshan Bairagya (SoK 2011): Making KStars more suitable for a scientifically inclined user
  • Łukasz Jaśkiewicz (ESA SoCiS 2011): Making KStars more useful for beginners

A round of applause for our successful Google Code-in students!

These pre-university students contributed to KStars as a part of Google Code-in 2010.

  • Cezar Mocan
  • Ana-Maria Constantin
  • Carl Gao
  • Valery Kharitonov
  • Diego Luca Candido
  • Kristian Ivanov

Thanks for the patches and testing!

  • Laurent Montel
  • Eckhart Wörner
  • Burkhard Lück
  • Nico Dietrich
  • James Cameron
  • Ralf Habacker
  • Daniel Holler
  • Patrick Spendrin
  • Nuno Pinheiro
  • Andrew Buck
  • Patrice Levesque
  • Douglas Phillipson
  • Andrey Cherepanov
  • Vipul Kumar Singh
  • Jain Basil Aliyas
  • Jeamy Lee
  • Sivaramakrishnan S
  • Adhiraj Alai
  • Lukas Middendorf
  • Sruthi Devi
  • Keith Rusler
  • Frederik Gladhorn
  • Keerthi Kiran
  • Jure Repinc
  • Aditya Bhatt
  • Alessio Sangalli

And everyone else who helped us by filing those bug reports, popularizing our software...