Volume 15 number 2 — 1986

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• About This 75th Anniversary Issue

  Charles A. Whitney

Variable Star Research

• AAVSO 75th Anniversary Meeting Agenda

  Anon.

• Highlights of Variable Star Astronomy 1900-1986

  John R. Percy

• Variable Star Observing Around the World

  Emile Schweitzer, Henk Feijth, Braun Werner Braun Werner, Frank Deboosere, Attila Mizser, Peter Reinhard

• Cataclysmic Variables

  Brian Warner

• Search for Apsidal Motion in the Eclipsing Variable V356 Sgr

  Sei-ichi Sakuma

• 30 Yards of History: SS Cygni 1896-1984

  Alan L. Kiplinger, Janet A. Mattei, James E. Morgan, Keith H. Danskin, Timothy Zack

• Observations of the Dwarf Nova HL Canis Majoris

  Christopher W. Mauche

• Recent Activity in Two Symbiotic Stars

  Scott J. Kenyon

• Supernovae: An Impressionistic View

  Virginia Trimble

• Determining Precise Positions of Supernovae

  William S. Penhallow

• Computer Simulations of Stellar Pulsation

  Charles A. Whitmey

• RR Lyrae Stars

  Martha L. Hazen

• R Coronae Borealis Stars

  J. Donald Fernie

• Recent Work on RV Tauri Stars

  Robert F. Wing

• Revised Period for CT Orionis

  Daniel H. Horowitz

• Mira Variables

  Lee Anne Willson

• AAVSO Observations of Long Period Variable Stars 1900-1975: Maximum and Minimum Magnitudes and O-C Diagrams

  Petrusia Kowalsky, John R. Percy, Janet A. Mattei, Elizabeth O. Waagen

• The Changing Period of V1303 Sagittarii

  Amy S. Barton

• Updated Elements for V Comae Berenices

  John H. Holliman

• Recent Data on IY Cygni

  Margaret G. Lysaght

• NSV 11003 and Its Variable Comparison Star

  Anne Manasil

• Period Revision and Refinement for V960 Aquilae

  David Wilner

• Starspots: an Unconventional Source of Variability

  David S. Evans

• New Minima timings for V1010 Ophiuchi

  David B. Williams, Russell E. Milton, L. Pazzi, Rick Wasson

• Peculiarities in TX Sagittarii

  Thomas A. Cragg

• ST Ursae Majoris: An Interesting Binocular Variable Star

  Christopher P. Stephan

• EI Cephei: Recent Unusual Photometric Behavior

  Wayne M. Lowder

History and Biography

• A History of Variable Star Astronomy to 1900 and Slightly Beyond

  Dorrit Hoffleit

• Preludes to the Founding of the AAVSO

  Dorrit Hoffleit

• The Founding of the AAVSO and its First 75 Years

  Janet A. Mattei

• People Cited in the Preceding Three Papers [Hoffleit, 15.77, 107; Mattei, 15.112]

  Anon.

• Some Unsung Heroes of the AAVSO

  Clinton B. Ford

• Three AAVSO Leaders: de Kock, Fernald, and Peltier

  Thomas R. Williams

• Personal Reminiscences

  Florence Campbell Bibber

• Martha Betz Shapley: First Lady of Harvard College Observatory 1921-1952

  Barbara L. Welther

• On the History of the Stellar Magnitude Scale

  Annemarie Mayer

• Swithin St. Cleve: Variable Star Observer

  Kenneth Weitzenhoffer

• Highlights of the Dedication of the New AAVSO Headquarters and theAAVSO 75th Anniversary Meeting

  Charles A. Fausel

• Remarks at the Dedication of the New AAVSO Headquarters

  Riccardo Giacconi

• Photographs from the Dedication of the New AAVSO Headquarters

  Anon.

• Thoughts of a Very Variable Volunteer

  Katherine S. Hazen

• Z Cam Variations

  Gerald P. Dyck, Helga Magrath

• The Cloudy Day Blues

  Charles A. Fausel

• Wrightwood Chronicles

  Lewis M. Cook

• Halley's Comet

  Robin M. Foster

• I Remember

  William Penhallow

• Musical Musings on Observing Night

  Thomas A. Cragg

• What Star is This?

  Elizabeth O. Waagen

• VSO'ing

  Dwqynal Pettengill

• A Song About the Pleiades

  Sei-ichi Sakuma

• Canopus

  Alain Porter

• The Australian Astronomers' Drinking Song

  Ronald B. Sawyer

• The Stars Go Nova

  Peter Jedicke, David Bigelow

• Betelgeuse

  Peter Jedicke

• It's a Long Way to Beta Cygni

  Ronald B. Sawyer, Peter Jedicke

• Neutron Star

  Peter Jedicke

• Starry, Starry Skies in April

  David Levy, Peter Jedicke

• Shoreline by Starlight

  Jeremy H. Knowles

• When I Looked Upon the Heavenly Firmament

  Ray Kardas, Jinny Kardas

• After-Banquet Remarks

  Willem J. Luyten

• Sestina--De Rerum Natura

  Michael Saladyga

• Special Award Presentations

  Anon.

• L'Homage A Keith

  Michael Saladyga

• Images and Variations

  Gerald P. Dyck

• AAVSO 75th Anniversary Letters

  Anon.

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Deriving Visual Magnitudes From the True Visual Magnitude Charts

  Jan Hers

• O-C by Computer

  Emilia P. Belserene

• A Fourier Series Method for Plotting O-C Graphs

  John H. Holliman

• The Theory of Optimizing Your Telescope to Detect the Faintest Stars

  Ronald E. Zissell

Education and Outreach

• Can Variable Stars Be Introduced to Children?

  David H. Levy

Organizational/Administrative

• Minutes of the 75th Annual Meeting (Cambridge, MA)

  Clinton B. Ford

• Annual Report of the Director for Fiscal Year 1985-1986

  Janet A. Mattei

• Annual 1985-1986 Committee Reports

  Various

• Chart Distribution Report

  AAVSO Headquarters

• Classical Cepheid Committee Report

  Thomas A. Cragg

• Eclipsing Binary Committee Report

  Marvin E. Baldwin

• New Chart Committee Report

  Clinton B. Ford

• 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

  Peter O. Taylor

• Telescope Committee Report

  Charles E. Scovil

• Treasurer's Report, October 1, 1985-September 30, 1986

  Theodore H. N. Wales

Errata

• Errata: Mattei, Vol. 15, p. 64

  Anon.

• Errata: Mattei, Vol. 15, p. 64

  Janet A. Mattei

Index

• Index to Volume 15

  Anon.