Volume 40 number 1 — 2012

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• About This 100th Anniversary Issue

  John R. Percy

• Group Photograph Taken at the 100th Spring Meeting

  Anon.

• List of 100th Spring Meeting Participants

  Anon.

• 100th Spring Meeting Schedule

  Anon.

• Group Photograph Taken at the 100th Annual Meeting

  Anon.

• List of 100th Annual Meeting Participants

  Anon.

• 100th Annual Meeting Schedule

  Anon.

• The Paper Sessions--photographs of the presenters

  Anon.

History and Biography

• Introduction to the History Paper Sessions

  Thomas R. Williams

• Anne S. Young: Professor and Variable Star Observer Extraordinaire

  Katherine Bracher

• The Stars Belong to Everyone: Astronomer and Science Writer Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905-1993)

  Maria J. Cahill

• Variable Stars and Constant Commitments: the Stellar Career of Dorrit Hoffleit

  Kristine Larsen

• Reminiscences on the Career of Martha Stahr Carpenter: Between a Rock and (Several) Hard Places

  Kristine Larsen

• Guiding Forces and Janet A. Mattei

  Elizabeth O. Waagen

• The AAVSO Widow--or Should We Say Spouse?

  Thomas R. Williams

• Twenty-Eight Years of CV Results With the AAVSO

  Paula Szkody, Anjum S. Mukadam, Boris T. Gaensicke, Janet A. Mattei, Arne A. Henden, Mike Simonsen, Matthew R. Templeton, Elizabeth O. Waagen, Gary Walker, Edward M. Sion, Steve B. Howell, Dean Townsley

• The Development of Early Pulsation Theory, or, How Cepheids Are Like Steam Engines

  Matthew Stanley

• The AAVSO Photoelectric Photometry Program in Its Scientific and Socio-Historic Context

  John R. Percy

• John Goodricke, Edward Pigott, and Their Study of Variable Stars

  Linda M. French

• Frank Elmore Ross and His Variable Star Discoveries

  Wayne Osborn

• Illinois--Where Astronomical Photometry Grew Up

  Barry B. Beaman, Michael T. Svec

• British Astronomical Association Variable Star Section, 1890-2011

  John Toone

• The "Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren" of Belgium

  Patrick Wils, Eric Broens, Hubert Hautecler, Frans Van Loo

• The RASNZ Variable Star Section and Variable Stars South

  Albert Jones, Stan Walker

• The Visual Era of the AAVSO Eclipsing Binary Program

  David B. Williams, Marvin E. Baldwin, Gerard Samolyk

• Walking With AAVSO Giants--a Personal Journey (1960s)

  Roger S. Kolman, Mike Simonsen

• Variable Star Observers I Have Known

  Charles E. Scovil

• An Appreciation of Clinton B. Ford and the AAVSO of Fifty Years Ago

  Tony Hull

• An Overview of the AAVSO's Information Technology Infrastructure From 1967 to 1997

  Richard C. S. Kinne

• Hubble's Famous Plate of 1923: a Story of Pink Polyethylene

  David R. Soderblom

• Centennial Highlights in Astronomy

  Owen Gingerich

Abstracts

• Margaret W. Mayall in the AAVSO Archives (Abstract)

  Michael Saladyga

• The Legacy of Annie Jump Cannon: Discoveries and Catalogues of Variable Stars (Abstract)

  Barbara L. Welther

• King Charles' Star: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Dating the Supernova Known as Cassiopeia A (Abstract)

  Martin Lunn

• Stellar Pulsation Theory From Arthur Stanley Eddington to Today (Abstract)

  Steven D. Kawaler, Carl J. Hansen

• The History of Variable Stars: a Fresh Look (Abstract)

  Robert Alan Hatch

• Introduction to BAV (Abstract)

  Franz-Josef Hambsch, Joachim Hubscher

• The GEOS Association of Variable Star Observers (Abstract)

  Franz-Josef Hambsch, Jean-François Le Borgne, E. Poretti, GEOS Association

• The RASNZ Photometry Section, Incorporating the Auckland Photoelectric Observers' Group (Poster abstract)

  Stan Walker

• History of Amateur Variable Star Observations in Japan (Poster abstract)

  Seiichiro Kiyota

• 20 Million Observations: the AAVSO International Database and Its First Century (Poster abstract)

  Elizabeth O. Waagen

• Apollo 14 Road Trip (Poster abstract)

  Paul Valleli

• Professional Astronomers in Service to the AAVSO (Poster abstract)

  Michael Saladyga, Elizabeth O. Waagen

• The Variable Star Observations of Frank E. Seagrave (Abstract)

  Gerald P. Dyck

• Lessons Learned During the Recent epsilon Aurigae Eclipse Observing Campaign (Abstract)

  Robert E. Stencel

• Contributions by Citizen Scientists to Astronomy (Abstract)

  Arne A. Henden

• Cataclysmic Variables in the Backyard (Abstract)

  Joseph Patterson

• Planet Hunting With HATNet and HATSouth (Abstract)

  Gaspar Bakos

• The Z CamPaign Early Results (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• Imaging Variable Stars With HST (Abstract)

  Margarita Karovska

• Probing Mira Atmospheres Using Optical Interferometric Techniques (Abstract)

  Sam Ragland

• Spots, Eclipses, and Pulsation: the Interplay of Photometry and Optical Interferometric Imaging (Abstract)

  Brian K. Kloppenborg

• AAVSO Estimates and the Nature of Type C Semiregulars: Progenitors of Type II Supernovae (Abstract)

  David G. Turner, K. Moncrieff, C. Short, Robert F. Wing, Arne A. Henden

• Preliminary Analysis of MOST Observations of the Trapezium (Abstract)

  Matthew R. Templeton, Joyce Ann Guzik, Arne A. Henden, William Herbst

• High School Students Watching Stars Evolve (Abstract)

  John R. Percy, Drew MacNeil, Leila Meema-Coleman, Karen Morenz

• !Eclipsing Binaries That Don't Eclipse Anymore: the Strange Case of the Once (and Future?) Eclipsing Binary QX Cassiopeiae (Abstract)

  Edward F. Guinan, Michael Bonaro, Scott G. Engle, Andrej Prsa

• High Speed UBV Photometry of epsilon Aurigae's 2009-2011 Eclipse (Poster abstract)

  Aaron Price, Gary Billings, Bruce L. Gary, Brian K. Kloppenborg, Arne A. Henden

• delta Scorpii 2011 Periastron: Visual and Digital Photometric Campaign (Poster abstract)

  Costantino! Sigismondi Sapienza

• The World's Strangest Supernova May Not Be a Supernova At All (Abstract)

  Caroline Moore

• An Amateur-Professional International Observing Campaign for the EPOXI Mission: New Insights Into Comets (Abstract)

  Karen J. Meech

• Membership of the Planetary Nebula Abell 8 in the Open Cluster Bica 6 and Implications for the PN Distance Scale (Poster abstract)

  David G. Turner, Joanne M. Rosvick, D. D. Balam, Arne A. Henden, Daniel J. Majaess, David J. Lane

• Light Curve of Minor Planet 1026 Ingrid (Poster abstract)

  Shelby Delos, Gary Ahrendts, Timothy Baker

• What Mass Loss Modeling Tells Us About Planetary Nebulae (Abstract)

  Lee Anne Willson, Qian Wang

• Stars, Planets, and the Weather: if You Don't Like It Wait Five Billion Years (Abstract)

  Jeremy J. Drake

• The Hunt for the Quark-Nova; a Call for Observers (Abstract)

  David J. Lane, R. Ouyed, D. Leahy, Douglas L. Welch

• Collaborative Research Efforts for Citizen Scientists (Poster abstract)

  Brian K. Kloppenborg, Aaron Price, Rebecca Turner, Arne A. Henden, Robert E. Stencel

• Exploring the Breadth and Sources of Variable Star Astronomers' Astronomy Knowledge: First Steps (Abstract)

  Stephanie J. Slater

• Rasch Analysis of Scientific Literacy in an Astronomical Citizen Science Project (Poster abstract)

  Aaron Price

• The Citizen Sky Planetarium Trailer (Poster abstract)

  Rebecca Turner, Aaron Price, Ryan Wyatt

• The World Science Festival (Abstract)

  John Pazmino

• New Life for Old Data: Digitization of Data Published in the Harvard Annals (Abstract)

  Matthew R. Templeton, Michael Saladyga, Kevin B. Paxson, Robert J. Stine, C. Froschlin, Andrew Rupp

• Data Release 3 of the AAVSO All-Sky Photometric Survey (APASS) (Poster abstract)

  Arne A. Henden, Stephen E. Levine, Dirk Terrell, T. C. Smith, Douglas L. Welch

• Data Evolution in VSX: Making a Good Thing Better (Abstract)

  Sebastian Otero

• VSX: the Next Generation (Abstract)

  Christopher L. Watson

• H-alpha Emission Extraction Using Narrowband Photometric Filters (Abstract)

  Gary Walker

• AAVSOnet: the Robotic Telescope Network (Poster abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• Automation of Eastern Kentucky University Observatory and Preliminary Data (Poster abstract)

  Marco Ciocca, Ethan E. Kilgore, Westley W. Williams

• Status of the USNO Infrared Astrometry Program (Poster abstract)

  Frederick John Vrba, Jeffrey A. Munn, Christian B. Luginbuhl, T. M. Tilleman, Arne A. Henden, Harry H. Guetter

• Solar Cycle 24--Will It Be Unusually Quiet? (Abstract)

  Rodney Howe

• Variable Star Observing With the Bradford Robotic Telescope (Abstract)

  Richard C. S. Kinne

• A Generalized Linear Mixed Model for Enumerated Sunspots (Abstract)

  Jamie Riggs

Variable Star Research

• Introduction to the Joint AAS-AAVSO Scientific Paper Sessions

  Matthew R. Templeton

• Long-Term Visual Light Curves and the Role of Visual Observations in Modern Astrophysics

  John R. Percy

• Variable Stars and the Asymptotic Giant Branch: Stellar Pulsations, Dust Production, and Mass Loss

  Angela K. Speck

• Interferometry and the Cepheid Distance Scale

  Thomas G. Barnes III

• Secular Variation of the Mode Amplitude-Ratio of the Double-Mode RR Lyrae Star NSVS 5222076, Part 2

  David A. Hurdis, Tom Krajci

• The Pulsational Behavior of the High Amplitude delta Scuti Star RS Gruis

  Jaime García

• RS Sagittae: the Search for Eclipses

  Jerry D. Horne

• Intensive Observations of Cataclysmic, RR Lyrae, and High Amplitude delta Scuti (HADS) Variable Stars

  Franz-Josef Hambsch

• A Study of the Orbital Periods of Deeply Eclipsing SW Sextantis Stars

  David Boyd

• Things We Don't Understand About RR Lyrae Stars

  Horace A. Smith

• The Usefulness of Type Ia Supernovae for Cosmology--a Personal Review

  Kevin Krisciunas

• Amateur Observing Patterns and Their Potential Impact on Variable Star Science

  Matthew R. Templeton

• Progress Report for Adapting APASS Data Releases for the Calibration of Harvard Plates

  Edward J. Los

• Bright New Type-Ia Supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101): Physical Properties of SN 2011fe From Photometry and Spectroscopy

  Sai Gouravajhala, Edward F. Guinan, Louis Strolger, Andrew Gott

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• The Acquisition of Photometric Data

  Arlo U. Landolt

• Digital Archiving: Where the Past Lives Again

  Kevin B. Paxson

Solar

• The Effect of Online Sunspot Data on Visual Solar Observers

  Kristine Larsen

Education and Outreach

• Adverse Health Effects of Nighttime Lighting

  Mario Motta

• Star Watching Promoted by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan

  Seiichi Sakuma

• Flares, Fears, and Forecasts: Public Misconceptions About the Sunspot Cycle

  Kristine Larsen

Reviews

• Introduction: Variable Star Astronomy in the 21st Century

  John R. Percy

• The Variability of Young Stellar Objects

  William Herbst

• How Amateurs Can Contribute to the Field of Transiting Exoplanets

  Bryce Croll

• Eclipsing Binaries in the 21st Century--Opportunities for Amateur Astronomers

  Edward F. Guinan, Scott G. Engle, Edward J. Devinney

• RR Lyrae Stars: Cosmic Lighthouses With a Twist

  Katrien Kolenberg

• Type 2 Cepheids in the Milky Way Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds

  Douglas L. Welch

• Classical Cepheids After 228 Years of Study

  David G. Turner

• Miras

  Lee Anne Willson, Massimo Marengo

• Non-Mira Pulsating Red Giants and Supergiants

  László L. Kiss, John R. Percy

• What Are the R Coronae Borealis Stars?

  Geoffrey C. Clayton

• Cataclysmic Variables

  Paula Szkody, Boris T. Gaensicke

• Symbiotic Stars

  Ulisse Munari

• Classical and Recurrent Novae

  Ulisse Munari

• A Century of Supernovae

  Peter Garnavich