Volume 27 number 2 — 1999

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Articles in This Issue

Variable Star Research

• Visual Magnitudes and the "Average Observer": The SS Cygni Field Experiment

  Richard H. Stanton

• IUE Observations of the Pulsation of RY Sgr

  Albert V. Holm

• MO Pup: Lost and Found

  Marvin E. Baldwin, Christopher Stephan, David B. Williams

• AAVSO Photoelectric Photometry and Hipparcos Photometry of the Pulsating Red Giant AG Cet

  Margarita Marinova, John R. Percy

• Hipparcos versus GCVS Amplitudes of Non-Mira M-Type Giants

  Dorrit Hoffleit

• Fast Variations of the Mean Brightness and Other Light Curve Parameters of the Carbon Mira-Type Star S Cep

  Vladislova Marsakova

• FG Sge: Amateur Challenge, Professional Enigma

  Ronald E. Royer

Variable Star Data

• A New All-Sky Reference Star Catalog with Varibility Data

  Wayne H., Jr. Warren, Christopher B. Sande, Alvin C. Miller, Allen T. Home, David A. Tracewell

History and Biography

• The "Pre-Embryonic" State of the AAVSO: Amateur Observers of Variable Stars in the United States from 1875 to 1911

  Michael Saladyga

• Further Mythological Evidence for Ancient Knowledge of Variable Stars

  Stephen R. Wilk

Abstracts

• Amateurs, Neutrinos, and the Next Type II Supernova (Abstract)

  Leif J. Robinson, Janet A. Mattei

• New Insights into RU Cam (Abstract)

  John R. Percy, Jonathan Hale, Yvonne Tang

• An Improved Period for the Eclipsing Binary V608 Cas (Abstract)

  Stephen P. Cook

• Brightenings of Two Elcipsing Variables at Maximum Light (Abstract)

  Wayne M. Lowder

• Photometry of CY Aquarri (Abstract)

  Elizabeth Walker

• A Study of the Behavior of W Aql (Abstract)

  Roger S. Kolman

• The AAVSO Sunspot Program (Abstract)

  Grant Foster

• The Founding of the AAS: The Status of Amateurs versus Women (Abstract)

  Barbara L. Welther

• Unfinished Business: Luyten's Harvard Variables (Abstract)

  David B. Williams

• New York's New hayden Planetarium (Abstract)

  John Pazmino

Organizational/Administrative

• Minutes of the 87th Annual Meeting (Cambridge, MA)

  Martha L. Hazen

• AAVSO Nova Award Recipients, 1998

  Anon.

• Annual Report of the Director for Fiscal Year 1997-1998

  Janet A. Mattei

• Annual 1997-1998 Committee Reports

  Various

• Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Committee Report

  Gary Walker

• 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

  Joseph Lawrence

• Supernova Search Committee Report

  Robert O. Evans

• Telescope Committee Report

  Charles E. Scovil

• Treasurer's Report, October 1, 1997-September 30, 1998

  Theodore H. N. Wales

Index

• Index to Volume 27

  Anon.