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References for star database and cross indices.

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@ -403,7 +403,16 @@ The MacOS X icon was designed by Chris Alford: http://www.chrisalford.com/
The txf font format used by Celestia was devised by Mark Kilgard.
The star database (stars.dat) was derived from the ESA's HIPPARCOS data set.
The star database (stars.dat) was derived from F. van Leeuwen's "Hipparcos, the
New Reduction of the Raw Data":
http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?I/311
with stellar spectral types and apparent magnitudes taken from ESA's original
version of the Hipparcos catalogue:
http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?I/239
The HD and SAO cross-indices were generated using the SIMBAD astronomical
database:
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
Constellation boundaries are drawn from Davenhall & Leggett's "Catalogue of
Constellation Boundary Data":