Volume 17 number 2 — 1988

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Articles in This Issue

Variable Star Research

• Chaos and Variable Stars: Good News and Bad

  Charles A. Whitney

• Revised Elements (I) for EH Canis Majoris, SV Puppis, TW Ophiuchi, HO Lyrae, and FW Delphini

  Margaret G. Lysaght

• Comparison of Water Maser Emission and the Visual Light Curve

  Priscilla J. Benson, Irene R. Little-Marenin

• Comparison of Light Variability and Water Maser Emission in V Canum Venaticorum

  Kristin A. Blais, Joanne M. Attridge, Irene Little-Marenin, Priscilla J. Benson

• Comparison of Light Variability and Water Maser Emission in R Ceti

  Rebecca P. Webb, Priscilla J. Benson, Irene Little-Marenin

• Comparison of Light Variability and Water Maser Emission in T Ursae Majoris

  Tara C. Woods, Irene R. Little-Marenin, Priscilla J. Benson

• The Precision of a Period

  Emilia P. Belserene

• The Changing Period of AF Scuti

  Eric Schulman

• New Elements for V1182 Sagittarii

  Michelle L. Querijero

• Photoelectric Photometry and Further Discussions of V Cephei

  Russell E. Milton, David B. Williams, Dorrit Hoffleit

• The Recent Faint State of CH Cygni

  Howard J. Landis

• R scuti: The (O-C) Diagram (Abstract)

  John R. Percy, Amy Alfred

Solar

• Definitive Daily American Sunspot Numbers for 1988

  Peter O. Taylor

Abstracts

• A Period Determination for Eclipsing Binary NSV 3005 (Abstract)

  Daniel H. Kaiser

• Computerized Data Handling: An On-Line Demonstration (Abstract)

  Edward A. Halbach

• The Continuity of AAVSO U.S. Member Observations: 1978-1986 (Abstract)

  Dwynal B. Pettengill

• V Ser, RS Ser, and CQ Ser: Three Neglected Eclipsing Binaries (Abstract)

  Marvin E. Baldwin

• Beta Lyrae: An Unpredictably Predictable Variable (Abstract)

  Craig R. Robinson, Edward F. Guinan, Andrew C. Theokas, Bergern Edwin A. Bergern Edwin A., Bernie W. Bopp, Robert C. Dempsey

• Methods of Period Analysis in the Study of Variable Stars with Applications to AF Cygni (Abstract)

  Craig R. Robinson, Janet A. Mattei

Letters to the Editor

• Letter to the Editor--"Will the Real V503 Cygni Please Stand Up?"

  John W. III Griese, Charles E. Scovil

• Letter to the Editor--"Can a 'Bad' Sequence Star Be a Variable?"

  Edward A. Halbach

• Letter to the Editor--"Observing Variation in Quasars"

  Thomas J. Balonek

• Letter to the Editor--"Group 70"

  John W. Briggs

Organizational/Administrative

• Minutes of the 77th Annual Meeting (Cambridge, MA)

  Clinton B. Ford

• Annual Report of the Director for Fiscal Year 1987-1988

  Janet A. Mattei

• Annual 1987-1988 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

  Peter O. Taylor

• Supernova Search Committee Report

  Robert O. Evans

• Telescope Committee Report

  Charles E. Scovil

• Treasurer's Report, October 1, 1987-September 30, 1988

  Theodore H. N. Wales

Index

• Index to Volume 17

  Anon.