Volume 33 number 1 — 2005

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Articles in This Issue

Variable Star Research

• Detection of Transits of Extrasolar Giant Planets With Inexpensive Telescopes and CCDs

  Timothy P. Castellano, Gregory Laughlin, Richard Stone Terry, Michael Kaufman, Seth Hubbert, Gion Matthias Schelbert

• AAVSO and HST Observations of eta Carinae

  M. D. Koppelman, J. C. Martin, E. O. Waagen

• Self-Correlation Analysis of R Coronae Borealis Stars: A Pilot Project

  John R. Percy, Kaushala Bandara, J. Donald Fernie, P. L. Cottrell, Ljiljana Skuljan

• Self-Correlation Analysis of the Brightness Variability of Symbiotic Stars: A Pilot Project

  John R. Percy, Ashley Harrett

• The 2003 Eclipse of EE Cephei

  Gerard Samolyk, Shawn Dvorak

• Monitoring of Mira Variable Stars

  Dale E. Mais, Robert E. Stencel, David Richards

• Charts and Comparison Stars: A Road Map to the Future

  A. Price, V. Petriew, M. Simonsen

• The Future of Visual Observations in Variable Star Research

  Michael A. Simonsen

• Double Vision: Chandra and AAVSO

  Donna L. Young

Education and Outreach

• Analyzing Online Data on Variable Stars: An Authentic Research Experience for Teachers

  Pebble Richwine, James R. Bedient, Tim Slater

Abstracts

• Miras and Their Companions (Abstract)

  Margarita Karovska

• The Mira Imaging Project: Near-IR VLBA, and Thermal-IR (Abstract)

  Wesley A. Traub

• Mira Data in the AAVSO International Database (Abstract)

  Matthew Templeton

• Planets in the Winds of Dying Stars: Detection by Photometry and the Fates of the Planets in Our Solar System (Abstract)

  Lee Anne Willson

• Secular Evolution in Mira and Semiregular Variable Pulsations (Abstract)

  Matthew Templeton, Janet A. Mattei

• X-Ray Jets in R Aquarii (Abstract)

  Edwin Kellogg, Joy Nichols, Jennifer Sokoloski

• 9.5 Million Variable Star Observations Coming to You by 2005! (Abstract)

  Elizabeth O. Waagen

• BZ UMa and Var Her 04: Keeping Us Up At Night (Abstract)

  Aaron Price

• Secular Evolution in Mira Variables (Abstract)

  Matthew Templeton, Janet A. Mattei, Lee Anne Willson

• Observing Cataclysmic Variables (Abstract)

  Arto Oksanen

• The AAVSO Data Validation Project: Opening the Treasure Chest (Abstract)

  Elizabeth O. Waagen

• Unexpected Benefits (Preliminary Research Results From the AAVSO Chart and Sequence Teams) (Abstract)

  Michael A. Simonsen

• Gamma-Ray Burst Optical Afterglow Observations at Nyrola, Observatory (Abstract)

  Arto Oksanen, P. Tikkanen, M. Aho, H. Hyv"nen, M. Moilanen

• William Tyler, Meet Janet: How Two Extraordinary People Made Variable Stars Accessible to the Rest of Us (Abstract)

  David H. Levy

• Deep Impact Mission (Abstract)

  Mary Ann Kadooka

• The Rice University CCD Imager for the AEOS Telescope (Abstract)

  R. I. Dufour, I. A. Smith, L. C. Hardin, et al.

Organizational/Administrative

• Minutes of the 93rd Spring Meeting (Berkeley, Calif.)

  Martha L. Hazen

• Deceased Members, Observers, and Colleagues

  Anon.

• New Members

  Anon.

• AAVSO Observer's Award Recipients, 2004

  Anon.

• AAVSO Director's Award Recipients, 2004

  Anon.

• Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Committee Report

  Gary Walker

• Spring 2003-2004 Committee Reports

  Various

• 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

  AAVSO Headquarters

• RR Lyrae Committee Report

  Marvin E. Baldwin

• Solar Committee Report

  Carl E. Feehrer

• Supernova Search Committee Report

  Robert O. Evans

• Telescope Committee Report

  Charles E. Scovil

• Treasurer's Report, October 1, 2003-March 31, 2004

  Louis Cohen