Variable Stars: The View from Up Here

Volume 46 number 2 (2018)

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John R. Percy

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada; john.percy@utoronto.ca

Abstract

Last year (2017), Canada celebrated its 150th birthday. This year (2018), the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) does likewise. In recent AAVSO Newsletters, I’ve written short articles about both Canadian astronomy (April 2017) and about the RASC (January 2018). In this article, I will complete the trilogy with a brief overview of variable star astronomy in Canada.