Volume 8 number 2 — 1979

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Articles in This Issue

• Variable Star Research

• Fishing for Period Changes: A Nantucket Industry

  Emilia P. Belserene

• The Period Behavior of Three RR Lyrae Variables in Coma Berenices

  Diane Gilmore

• What Happened to 51 Piscium?

  Dorrit Hoffleit

• New Periods for Two W Virginis Type Variables

  Melanie Mitchell

• A Photoelectric Light Curve and Period Study for CC Cassiopeiae

  Richard Binzel, Patrick Hartigan

• Photoelectric Photometry of the Suspected Cepheid, Rho Bootis

  Gordon F. Fisher, Gregory W. Henry, Howard J. Landis, Howard Louth

• A Period change in V957 Aquilae

  Elisabeth A. Street

• A Period Change in V783 Cygni

  Allen R. Loser

• Book Reviews

• Book Review--"The End of an Era" (Gaposchkin: Stars and Clusters)

  Dorrit Hoffleit

• Book Review--The Amateur Astronomer

  Thomas Williams

• Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Photoelectric Photometry With a Commercially Available Solid-State Photometer

  Thomas G. McFaul

• History and Biography

• Cyrus and Emily Fernald

  Leslie C. Peltier

• Letters to the Editor

• Letter to the Editor--"New and Revised Preliminary Charts, as of 1 March 1980"

  Clinton B. Ford

• Organizational/Administrative

• Minutes of the General Annual Meeting (Cambridge, MA)

  Clinton B. Ford

• Annual 1978-1979 Committee Reports

  Various

• Chart Distribution Report

  AAVSO Headquarters

• New Chart Committee Report

  Clinton B. Ford

• Photoelectric Photometry Committee Report

  Howard J. Landis

• Nova Search Committee Report

  Carmine V. Borzelli Jr.

• RR Lyrae Committee Report

  Marvin E. Baldwin

• Variable Star Atlas Committee Report

  Clinton B. Ford

• Eclipsing Binary Committee Report

  Marvin E. Baldwin

• Annual Report of the Director for Fiscal Year 1978-1979

  Janet A. Mattei

• Treasurer's Report, October 1, 1978-September 30, 1979

  R. Newton Mayall

• Index

• Index to Volume 8

  Anon.

• Errata

• Errata: Krobusek, Vol. 8, p. 4

  Bruce A. Krobusek