Volume 37 number 2 — 2009

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Articles in This Issue

Variable Star Research

• Quantifying Irregularity in Pulsating Red Giants

  John R. Percy, Samantha Esteves, Alfred Lin, Christopher Menezes, Sophia Wu

• The Superoutburst Period of KV Draconis

  Jeremy Shears

• BH Crucis: Period, Magnitude, and Color Changes

  W. S. G. Walker

• The 2009 Eclipse of EE Cephei

  Gerard Samolyk, Rudy Poklar

• Photometry of Z Tauri to Minimum

  Walt R., Jr. Cooney, Arne A. Henden, John Gross, Dirk Terrell

• BS Tauri--Evidence for Cyclic Activity in an Orion Irregular

  Lawrence Krumenaker

• CX Lyrae 2008 Observing Campaign

  Pierre de Ponthiäre, Jean-Franáois Le Borgne, F. -J. Hambsch

• Deciphering Multiple Observations of V480 Lyrae

  Jerry D. Horne

• VZ Librae: an Eclipsing Contact Binary in a Ternary System

  Michel Bonnardeau

• A Multi-year Multi-passband CCD Photometric Study of the W UMa Binary EQ Tauri

  Kevin B. Alton

• Identifying Previously Uncatalogued Red Variable Stars in the Northern Sky Variability Survey

  Martin Nicholson

• Searching Beyond the Obscuring Dust Between the Cygnus-Aquila Rifts for Cepheid Tracers of the Galaxy's Spiral Arms

  Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, David J. Lane

Abstracts

• The International Year of Astronomy and Citizen Science (Abstract)

  Aaron Price

• Variable Star Astronomy Education Outreach Initiative (Abstract)

  Donna L. Young

• 120 Years of RZ Dor (Abstract)

  James Bedient

• Forty Years of Mystery: Unraveling BZ UMa (Abstract)

  Aaron Price, Grant Foster

• Update on HST Campaign on Pulsating White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables (Abstract)

  Paula Szkody

• How Do Pulsating Giant Stars Make Dust? (Abstract)

  Lee Anne Willson

• The Evolution of R Coronae Borealis Stars (Abstract)

  Geoffrey C. Clayton

• The Chandra Variable Guide Star Catalog (Abstract)

  Joy S. Nichols, David A. Huenemoerder, E. Martin, J. Lauer, D. Morgan, Arne A. Henden

• A Microprocessor-based Starfield Simulator (Abstract)

  Douglas L. Welch, Anthony Tekatch, Steve Bickerton

• Automated Calibration and an Open-source Sky Survey (Abstract)

  David W. Hogg

• Overview of the DASCH Photometry Pipeline (Poster abstract)

  Edward J. Los

• First Steps Towards a Solar Flare Detector Using the AAVSO Design (Poster abstract)

  James F. Breitmeyer

• Reclaiming the Astronomical and Historical Legacy of Antonia Maury (Abstract)

  Kristine Larsen

• Henrietta Swan Leavitt (Abstract)

  Katy Sternberger

• Outreach at Cornell's Fuertes Observatory (Poster abstract)

  Richard C. S. Kinne

• AAVSO Long-Period Variable Section Update (Abstract)

  Kate Hutton, Michael Simonsen

• The AAVSO Wide-Field Photometric Survey (Abstract)

  Arne A. Henden

• BL Eri: A Contact Binary System (Abstract)

  Lee Snyder

• The Addictive Properties of Occultations (Abstract)

  John Menke

• High Resolution Asteroid Profile by Multi Chord Occultation Observations (Abstract)

  Scott Degenhardt

• Lightweight Mirror Developments (Abstract)

  Russell M. Genet

• Optimizing Opto-mechanical Performance Using Simple Tools and Techniques (Abstract)

  Tom Krajci

• Enhancements to the Sentinel Fireball Network Video Software (Abstract)

  Wayne Watson

• Photometry and Light Curves in the Solar System (Abstract)

  Jay M. Pasachoff

• Sloan-r' photometry of Comet 17P/Holmes Beyond 3.8 AU: An Observing Methodology for Short-period Comets Far from Perhelion (Abstract)

  Richard Miles

• Spectrashift Exoplanet Transit Search Project: 40,000 Light Curves and Counting (Abstract)

  Thomas G. Kaye, David Healy

• ILOX-A Small Visible Imager on the Lunar Surface (Abstract)

  Daniel O'Connor

• Thinking Out Loud: An Optical SETI Campaign Suitable for Amateur Astronomers? (Abstract)

  James Edwards

• The Early History of Photometric Observations of Asteroids Made At Table Mountain Observatory (Abstract)

  James W. Young, Alan W. Harris

• What's Next in Asteroid Photometry? (Abstract)

  Gary A. Vander Haagen

• Extending a Spectroscopic Survey of Main Belt Asteroids With Micro Telescopes: A Proof of Concept Project (Abstract)

  Robert Stephens, Ralph Megna

• Slow Rotating Asteroids: A Long Day's Journey Into Night (Abstract)

  Brian D. Warner

• Filling Your Astronomy Program (Abstract)

  Pamela Gay, Michael Simonsen

• Spectroscopic Binaries Studies (Abstract)

  Olivier Thizy

• Revisiting the O'Connell Effect in Eclipsing Binary Systems (Abstract)

  Nicholas J. Wilsey, Matthew M. Beaky

• Using a Web Cam CCD to Do V-Band Photometry (Abstract)

  Rev. Paul Temple

• An Intensive CCD Photometry Campaign to Observe DW Ursae Majoris (Abstract)

  David Boyd, Boris Gaensicke

• Intrinsic Variability of beta Lyrae Observed With a Digital SLR Camera (Abstract)

  Donald F. Collins, Anesh Prasai

• Epsilon Aurigae, 2009: The Eclipse Begins--Observing Campaign Status (Abstract)

  Robert E. Stencel, Jeffrey L. Hopkins

• New Observations of Three Lyra Variables (Abstract)

  Jerry D. Horne

• Epsilon Aurigae Hydrogen Alpha Emission Line Variation: The Horn Dance (Abstract)

  Jeffrey L. Hopkins, Robert E. Stencel

• The 2009 Eclipse of EE Cephei: An Educational and Collaborative Journey (Abstract)

  John Pye, Lauren Elder, Jeff Hopkins

• An Estimate of the Integrated Magnitude of the LCROSS Impact Ejecta Dust Curtain for Exposure Calibration Practice (Abstract)

  Kurt A. Fisher

• The Light Curve of UZ Sagittae (Abstract)

  Robert K. Buchheim

• Data Mining Techniques Applied to the GNAT Library Archive (Poster abstract)

  Erin M. Craine

• Phase Dependent Spectroscopic Monitoring of Cepheid Variable Stars (Poster abstract)

  Bandon Decker, Matthew M. Beaky

• Searching for Chaos in the Mira Variable Star U Cygni (Poster abstract)

  Amanda Tougas, Matthew M. Beaky

• Time Delay Integration: A Wide-Field Survey Technique (Poster abstract)

  Robert La Pointe, E. Hill, L. Leimer, K. McMillian, A. Miller, A. Prindle

• Quantifying Irregularity in Pulsating Red Giants (Poster abstract)

  John R. Percy, Samantha Esteves, Alfred Lin, Christopher Menezes, Sophia Wu

• Over-Contact Binary GR Tauri (Poster abstract)

  Lee Snyder

• Photometry of Variable Stars Using a Lensless Schmidt Camera (Poster abstract)

  Jeff Horne

Index

• Index to Volume 37

  Anon.

Errata

• Errata: Samolyk, Gerard, Vol. 37, pp. 44-51

  Anon.

• Errata: Samolyk, Gerard, Vol. 37, pp. 44-51

  Gerard Samolyk