Volume 36 number 1 — 2008

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Articles in This Issue

Variable Star Research

• Period Change in the Semiregular Variable RU Vulpeculae

  Matthew Templeton, Lee Anne Willson, Grant Foster

• How to Understand the Light Curves of Symbiotic Stars

  Augustin Skopal

• On the Connection Between CWA and RVA Stars

  Patrick Wils, Sebasti†n A. Otero

• Studying Variable Stars Discovered Through Exoplanet-Transit Surveys: A "Research Opportunity Program" Project

  John R. Percy, Rahul Chandra, Mario Napoleone

• Discovery and Observations of the Optical Afterglow of GRB 071010B

  Arto Oksanen, Matthew Templeton, Arne A. Henden, David Alexander Kann

• Detection of the First Observed Outburst of DW Cancri

  Tim Crawford, David Boyd, Carlo Gualdoni, Walter MacDonald II, Arto Oksanen

• Analysis of BVI Photometry of the Eclipsing Binary EV Lyrae

  Jerry D. Horne

• Combining Visual and Photoelectric Observations of Semiregular Red Variables

  Terry T. Moon, Sebastian A. Otero, Laszlo L. Kiss

• The Exciting Star of the Berkeley 59/Cepheus OB4 Complex and Other Chance Variable Star Discoveries

  Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, David J. Lane, Kathleen E. Moncrieff

• Infrared Passbands for Precise Photometry of Variable Stars by Amateur and Professional Astronomers

  Eugene F. Milone, Andrew T. Young

• Adventures in J- and H-Band Photometry of Evolved Stars

  Aaron J. Bradley, Robert E. Stencel

Abstracts

• Long-Term Photometric Variability of 13 Bright Pulsating Red Giants (Abstract)

  John R. Percy, Cristina O. Nasui, Gregory W. Henry

• Period Change Behavior of the Algol-Type Eclipsing Binary LS Persei (Abstract)

  Gary Billings

• A Multicolor Photometric and Fourier Study of New Field RR Lyrae Variables (Abstract)

  Michael Koppelman, Richard Huziak, Walter Cooney, Vance Petriew

• Research Breakthroughs From Pro-Am Collaborations (Abstract)

  David G. Turner

• One Little Telescope, So Many Stars (Abstract)

  Jaymie Matthews

• Slowly Pulsating B Stars: A Challenge for Photometrists (Abstract)

  Robert J. Dukes Jr., Laney Mills, Melissa Sims

• Suspected Variables in AAVSO Star Fields (Abstract)

  Richard Huziak

• Automated Variable Star Observing and Photometric Processing at the Abbey Ridge Observatory (Abstract)

  David J. Lane

• The AAVSO Standard Star Database (VSD) and the Variable Star Plotter (VSP) (Abstract)

  Vance Petriew, Michael Koppelman