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+*******************
+Authors and Credits
+*******************
+
+ccdproc Project Contributors
+============================
+
+* Matt Craig(@mwcraig)
+* Steve Crawford(@crawfordsm)
+* Thomas Robitaille(@astrofrog)
+* Brigitta Sipocz(@bsipocz)
+* Joe Philip Ninan(@indiajoe)
+* Michael Droettboom(@mdboom)
+* Erik Bray(@embray)
+* Erik Tollerud(@eteq)
+* Michael Seifert(@MSeifert04)
+* Hans Moritz Günther(hamogu)
+* Evert Rol(@evertrol)
+* Larry Bradley(@larrybradley)
+* Christoph Deil(@cdeil)
+* Kyle Barbary(@kbarbary)
+* Anthony Horton(@AnthonyHorton)
+* Nathan(@heidtha)
+* Wolfgang Kerzendorf(@wkerzendorf)
+* Stefan Nelson(@pulsestaysconstant)
+* Ole Streicher(@olebole)
+* William Schoenell(@wschoenell)
+* Benjamin Alan Weaver(@weaverba137)
+* Punyaslok Pattnaik(@Punyaslok)
+* Carlos Gomez(@carlgogo)
+
+(If you have contributed to the Astropy project and your name is missing,
+please send an email to the coordinators, or
+`open a pull request for this page <https://github.com/astropy/ccdproc/edit/master/credits.rst>`_
+in the `ccdproc repository <https://github.com/astropy/ccdproc>`_)
+