Volume 27 number 1 — 1999

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Articles in This Issue

• Variable Star Research

• The Onset of Pulsation in Red Giants

  John R. Percy, Metin Guler

• Monitoring Cepheid Period Changes from Saint Mary's University

  David G. Turner, Andrew J. Horsfold, Joseph MacMillan

• Photometric History of the SU UMa-Type Cataclysmic Variable SBS 1017+533

  Martha L. Hazen, Peter M. Garnavich

• On the X-Ray Nova V404 Cygni

  Tibor J. Herczeg, Matthew T. Maloney

• Period Change in the Field Contact Binary V728 Herculis

  Robert H. Nelson

• HR 211 from Maple Observatory and Hipparcos

  Raymond R. Thompson

• Timing of the 1997 Eclipse of the Long Period (5.61 Years) Eclipsing Binary EE Cephei

  Edward A. Halbach

• Photometry of Hipparcos Variable Stars

  Threse A. Ostrowski, Robert E. Stencel

• Monitoring Faint Variable Stars at Minimum: A Work in Progress

  Gary P. Emerson, Irene R. Little-Marenin

• Monitoring Nearby Stars for Transits of Extrasolar Jovian Planets, II: Transits of M-Type (Red Dwarf) Stars by Close Extrasol

  Frederick R. West

• Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Searching for Novae: CCD Imagery or Photography?

  William Liller

• Flat-Fielding for CCDs in AAVSO Observations, I

  Gary P. Emerson, Stephen J. Little

• First Light at the New Mt. Evans Observatory

  Robert E. Stencel

• Monitoring Visual Photometry I: Preliminary Determination of Visual Bandpass

  Peter L. Collins

• Solar

• AAVSO Solar Division Digital Data Archives at NGDC

  Helen E. Coffey, Christine D. Hanchett, Edward H. Erwin

• Abstracts

• Things that Go Bump in the Night--Inside a Convective Red Giant (Abstract)

  Lee Anne Willson, David H. Porter, Paul R. Woodward

• Two New Emission Line Stars (Abstract)

  Peter M. Garnavich, Krzysztof Z. Stanek

• New Formula for Telescopic Limiting Magnitudes (Abstract)

  Roy H. Garstang

• Photometry of Supernova 1998S (Abstract)

  David Clark

• A Quickbasic Program for Doing Filter Transformation Coefficients for CCD Observers (Abstract)

  Gary Emerson, Ray Demara

• An Active Longitude in the New Cycle (Abstract)

  Thomas A. Cragg

• SIDPLOT Analysis Tool for SID Monitoring Data Reduction (Abstract)

  Joseph D. Lawrence

• Optimal Observatory Setup for CCD Photometric Observations of Extragalactic Supernovae (Abstract)

  Mario E. Motta

• Preparing the Observe Variable Stars Manual for the Astronomical League (Abstract)

  Roger S. Kolman

• Organizational/Administrative

• Minutes of the 87th Spring Meeting (Boulder, CO)

  Martha L. Hazen

• AAVSO Director's Award Recipient, 1998

  Anon.

• Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Committee Report

  Gary Walker

• Spring 1997-1998 Committee Reports

  Various

• Chart Distribution Report

  AAVSO Headquarters

• Eclipsing Binary Committee Report

  Marvin E. Baldwin

• New Chart Committee Report

  Charles E. Scovil

• 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

  Elizabeth Stephenson

• Supernova Search Committee Report

  Robert O. Evans

• Telescope Committee Report

  Charles E. Scovil

• Treasurer's Report, October 1, 1997-March 31, 1998

  Theodore H. N. Wales