Copyright Notice

These web documents and the hardcopy version were created by Nick Strobel for the introductory science courses he teaches. The text of these documents (chapters) and all of the line drawings in them are copyrighted by Nick Strobel. Many of the color photographs are copyrighted by other parties. Their copyrights are noted with the images.

That said, I do offer these documents and my line drawings to the net as a resource in astronomy education. Feel free to use them in your own astronomy courses or talks. If you decide to make copies of these documents on your web server, you must leave this notice of authorship with your copies and clear, explicit instructions of how to get to the official Astronomy Notes homepage. Your web server's copy of these pages and my artwork must state that it is a copy of my site and provide a link to my site at Bakersfield College. For example:

This page is copied from Nick Strobel's Astronomy Notes web site. The official, updated version is available at his web site. Select this link to go to his web site.

If you make hardcopies of these documents, you must clearly and explicitly acknowledge my authorship of the text and the images I created. Also, show how to get to my web site at Bakersfield College.

Copyrighted, 1998 and 1999 by Nick Strobel


Nick Strobel -- Email: strobel@lightspeed.net

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