Volume 12 number 2 — 1983

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Articles in This Issue

History and Biography

• Maria Mitchell's Observations of Mira, 1856-1859

  Emilia P. Belserene

• The AAVSO Photoelectric Photometry Program: A Progress Report

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Research

• VZ Aquilae: A Study in the Evolution of a BL Herculis Star

  Julie Christianson

• A Spectral Catalogue of Southern Hemisphere Mira Variable Stars

  Richard A. Crowe

• The Orion Variables: A Symphony of Delicacy and Brilliance

  David H. Levy

• UBV Photometry of Seyfert Galaxy Nuclei

  Anthony D. Mallama

Book Reviews

• Book Review--Astronomical Photometry (Henden and Kaitchuck)

  Jeffrey L. Hopkins

• Book Review--Photoelectric Photometry of Variable Stars (Hall and Genet)

  Jeffrey L. Hopkins

• Book Review--Software for Photoelectric Astronomy (Ghedini)

  Jeffrey L. Hopkins

Editorial

• Announcement

  Charles A. Whitney

Letters to the Editor

• Letter to the Editor--"Memory and the Use of Charts"

  Robert H. McNaught

Abstracts

• The Comet of Charles V (Abstract)

  Dorrit Hoffleit

• The Maria Mitchell Observatory: A Jubilee Salute (Abstract)

  Barbara L. Welther

• Invisible Variable Stars (Abstract)

  Lee Anne Willson

• The Old Guard (Abstract)

  R. Newton Mayall

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Photoelectric V [not equal to] m[sub]v

  Richard H. Stanton

Solar

• The Present Sunspot Cycle, No. 21

  Herbert A. Luft

Organizational/Administrative

• Minutes of the 72nd Annual Meeting (Nantucket, MA)

  Clinton B. Ford

• Annual Report of the Director for Fiscal Year 1982-1983

  Janet A. Mattei

• Annual 1982-1983 Committee Reports

  Various

• Chart Distribution Report

  AAVSO Headquarters

• Classical Cepheid Committee Report

  Thomas A. Cragg

• New Chart Committee Report

  Clinton B. Ford

• Eclipsing Binary Committee Report

  Marvin E. Baldwin

• Nova Search Committee Report

  Kenneth C. Beckmann

• Photoelectric Photometry Committee Report

  Howard J. Landis

• RR Lyrae Committee Report

  Marvin E. Baldwin

• Solar Division Committee Report

  Robert B. Ammons

• Telescope Committee Report

  Charles E. Scovil

• Treasurer's Report, October 1, 1982-September 30, 1983

  Theodore H. N. Wales

Errata

• Errata: Mattei, Vol. 11, p. 102

  Janet A. Mattei

• Errata: Wheatley, Vol. 11, p. 19

  Jonathan Wheatley

Index

• Index to Volume 12

  Anon.