Volume 52 number 2 — 2024

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• Update on JAAVSO Citations

  Nancy D. Morrison

Variable Star Research

• Searching for Hidden Black Holes in APOGEE-2

  David Palmore, Thomas J. Maccarone, Rachael Beaton, Michael Eracleous, Arash Bahramian, Carlos Badenes, Tharindu Jayasinghe

• 14 New Light Curves and an Updated Ephemeris for the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-54 b

  Heather B. Hewitt, Bradley Hutson, Michael Brockman, Elizabeth Catogni, Rosemary Ferreira, Gary Fussell, Atea Johnson, Chris Kight, Ryan A. Kilinski, Khatu Nguyen, Ty Perry, Elizabeth Quinlan, Eva Randazzo, Kellan Reagan, Kinley Subers, Federico R. Noguer, Molly N. Simon, Robert T. Zellem

• A Photometric Study of the Total Eclipsing Algol Binary KK Draconis

  Edward J. Michaels

• CCD Photometry, Period Analysis, Light Curve Deconvolution, and Evolutionary Status of the High Amplitude δ Scuti Variable Star, TYC 3224-2602-1

  W. Allen Gilchrist, Jr.

• Twenty-five Years of Visual and Near-Infrared Photometric Observations of the SRc Variable Star TV Geminorum

  Richard Wasatonic

• Photometric Distance of the RR Lyrae Star SU Draconis Using Period-Luminosity-Metallicity Relationships

  Britton Baltich, Kevin Siaw, Jacob Davis, Meseret Wolde, Stephen R. McNeil

• Color Photometry and Pulsation Periods of RR Lyrae Stars in the Globular Cluster NGC 3201

  Maiya Qiu, Nicholas Peh, Eden (Songxiao) Li, Kalée Tock

• Photometry and Spectroscopy of a Deep Algol-like Minimum of WW Vulpeculae in 2016

  David Boyd

• A Photometric Study of the Near-Contact Binary SY Boötis

  Edward J. Michaels

• Rapid Periodic Spectroscopic Variation of the Hα Line of the Be Shell Star ο Andromedae

  Harry R. Diz

Solar System Research

• A Search for Kilometer-Size Kuiper Belt Objects with a 43-cm Telescope Using Stellar Occultations

  Gary Vander Haagen

Education and Outreach

• Students as Citizen Scientists: Observations and Measurements of 43 Exoplanet Targets

  Jett Peters, Sabine Mazzeo, Alex Hamrick, Leon Bewersdorff, Nick Hardy, Dave Rowe, Maiya Qiu, Emerson Tiller, Mia Ella Antonio, Pierce Arora, Reid Barry, Ella Barthel, Sophia Bhatti, Kavi Bidlack, Nathan Bowman, Corbin Breeden, Madeleine Cheung, Nicholas Dunn, Atria Freeman, Kyler Gandrup, Kiera Higgins, Amiya Iqbal, Duncan Keefe, Cole Kim, Eden (Songxiao) Li, Denis Levine, Elina Lobanov, Jules Miller, Morgan Mescher, Khensa Musaddequr Rahman, William O’Donnell, Kingsley Panigrahi, Lily Parry, Nicholas Peh, Michael Pylypovych, Tala Reyes, Hannah Hyeonseo Ryou, Sage Sawhney, Zoe Schurman, Karthikeya Vattem, Leonid Vishnevskiy, Weston Yoo, Fenton Zarlengo, David Oparko, Kalée Tock, Pat Boyce, Scott Dixon

History and Biography

• Six Decades in Variable Star Astronomy

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Data

• Recent Minima of 207 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk