\section*{The Bangalore Astronomical Society}

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The makers of this compilation acknowledge the Bangalore Astronomical

Society (BAS) for the inspiration behind this idea. In particular, the

makers thank the council members of the BAS during 2013.\\

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\section*{Austin Astronomical Society}

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Akarsh Simha would like to thank Austin Astronomical Society for

keeping his astronomy spirit alive, and providing some of the

motivation much required to complete these logbooks. The members of

the AAS gave him much necessary encouragement, many many valuable

suggestions, and shared his excitement at the finished product. Austin

Astronomical Society's webpage is found at

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\section*{The Digitized Sky Survey}

The images used in this compilation come from the Digitized Sky Survey

plates, in particular, those from the POSS-II and UKSTU surveys.

The Digitized Sky Survey 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.

The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the

California Institute of Technology with funds from the National

Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,

the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel

Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation. The Oschin

Schmidt Telescope is operated by the California Institute of

Technology and Palomar Observatory.

The UK Schmidt Telescope was operated by the Royal Observatory

Edinburgh, with funding from the UK Science and Engineering Research

Council (later the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research

Council), until 1988 June, and thereafter by the Anglo-Australian

Observatory. The blue plates of the southern Sky Atlas and its

Equatorial Extension (together known as the SERC-J), the near-IR

plates (SERC-I), as well as the Equatorial Red (ER), and the Second

Epoch [red] Survey (SES) were all taken with the UK Schmidt telescope

at the AAO.

The images themselves were downloaded from the Mikulski Archive for

Space Telescopes (MAST; \url{http://archive.stsci.edu/}).

The makers thank the DSS for making sky imagery freely available for

non-profit activities, and also thank MAST for the excellent web

service provided by them.

\section*{Deep-Sky Object Data}

The makers thank Dr. Wolfgang Steinicke for providing the Revised NGC

/ IC catalog under terms making it free for non-commercial use.

The Dreyer and SAC descriptions, and some of the data for non-NGC/IC

objects, come from the Saguaro Astronomy Club database. The makers

thank the Saguaro Astronomy Club for providing their compilation for

free non-commercial use.

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\section*{KStars and other open-source tools}

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The makers particularly thank, the developers of KStars,

(\url{http://edu.kde.org/kstars}) the software that made the rendition

of star maps used in this compilation possible and made available, in

an easy form, the data used in this compilation. KStars was also used

to fetch appropriate DSS URLs for the objects. KStars is a

cross-platform astronomy software licensed under the GNU General

Public License v2 (\url{https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0}). It

qualifies as free software.

The typesetting of the charts was done using

\LaTeX. \texttt{xmlstarlet} was used to parse XML for object

descriptions generated by KStars. Inkscape and ImageMagick were used

to convert between graphics formats. Inkscape was also used to

generate several of the graphics used here. Several tools from the

standard GNU suite, such as \texttt{bash}, \textt{wget}, \texttt{sed}

and \texttt{awk} proved very useful.

\textbf{This compilation was generated using only free and open source

software.}