Volume 40 number 2 — 2012

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• Highlighting epsilon Aurigae and Citizen Sky

  John R. Percy

Education and Outreach

• The Origins and Future of the Citizen Sky Project

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

• An Artist's Note on Art in Science

  Nico Camargo

Variable Star Research

• epsilon Aurigae--an Overview of the 2009-2011 Eclipse Campaign Results

  Robert E. Stencel

• The International epsilon Aurigae Campaign 2009 Photometry Report

  Jeffrey L. Hopkins

• An Analysis of the Long-term Photometric Behavior of epsilon Aurigae

  Brian K. Kloppenborg, Jeffrey L. Hopkins, Robert E. Stencel

• V-band Light Curve Analysis of epsilon Aurigae During the 2009-2011 Eclipse

  Thomas Karlsson

• Report From the epsilon Aurigae Campaign in Greece

  Grigoris Maravelias, Emmanuel Kardasis, Iakovos-Marios Strikis, Byron Georgalas, Maria Koutoulaki

• Photoelectric Photometry of epsilon Aurigae During the 2009-2011 Eclipse Season

  Frank J. Melillo

• Small Telescope Infrared Photometry of the epsilon Aurigae Eclipse

  Thomas P. Rutherford

• UV-Blue (CCD) and Historic (Photographic) Spectra of epsilon Aurigae--Summary

  R. Elizabeth Griffin, Robert E. Stencel

• H-alpha Spectral Monitoring of epsilon Aurigae 2009-2011 Eclipse

  Benjamin Mauclaire, Christian Buil, Thierry Garrel, Robin Leadbeater, Alain Lopez

• High Cadence Measurement of Neutral Sodium and Potassium Absorption During the 2009-2011 Eclipse of epsilon Aurigae

  Robin Leadbeater, Christian Buil, Thierry Garrel, Stanley A. Gorodenski, Torsten Hansen, Lothar Schanne, Robert E. Stencel, Berthold Stober, Olivier Thizy

• Spectroscopic Results From Blue Hills Observatory of the 2009-2011 Eclipse of epsilon Aurigae

  Stanley A. Gorodenski

• Eclipse Spectropolarimetry of the epsilon Aurigae System

  Kathleen M. Geise, Robert E. Stencel, Nadine Namset, David Harrington, Jeffrey Kuhn

• Polarimetry of epsilon Aurigae, From November 2009 to January 2012

  Gary M. Cole

• Modeling the Disk in the epsilon Aurigae System: a Brief Review With Proposed Numerical Solutions

  Richard L. Pearson III, Robert E. Stencel

• BVRI Photometry of SN 2011fe in M101

  Michael W. Richmond, Horace A. Smith

• New Light Curve for the 1909 Outburst of RT Serpentis

  Grant Luberda, Wayne Osborn

• International Observing Campaign: Photometry and Spectroscopy of P Cygni

  Ernst Pollmann, Thilo Bauer

• The Pulsation Period of the Hot Hydrogen-Deficient Star MV Sgr

  John R. Percy, Rong Fu

• GEOS RR Lyrae Survey: Blazhko Period Measurement of Three RRab Stars--CX Lyrae, NU Aurigae, and VY Coronae Borealis

  Pierre de Ponthière, Jean-François Le Borgne, F. Fumagalli, Franz-Josef Hanbsch, Tom Krajci, J-M. Llapasset, Kenneth Menzies, Marco Nobile, Richard Sabo

• The Ross Variable Stars Revisited. II

  Wayne Osborn, O. Frank Mills

• GSC 4552-1643: a W UMa System With Complete Eclipses

  Dirk Terrell, John Gross

• VSX J071108.7+695227: a Newly Discovered Short-period Eclipsing Binary

  Mario Damasso, Davide Cenadelli, Paolo Calcidese, Luca Borsato, Valentina Granata, Valerio Nascimbeni

• Variability Type Determination and High Precision Ephemeris for NSVS 7606408

  Riccardo Furgoni

• Is MP Geminorum an Eclipsing Binary With a Very Long Period?

  Dietmar Böhme

• The Variable Stars South Eclipsing Binary Database

  Tom Richards

• A Note on the Variability of V538 Cassiopeiae

  Gustav Holmberg

• ROAD (Remote Observatory Atacama Desert): Intensive Observations of Variable Stars

  Franz-Josef Hambsch

• The Citation of Manuscripts Which Have Appeared in JAAVSO

  Arlo U. Landolt

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• A Demonstration of Accurate Wide-field V-band Photometry Using a Consumer-grade DSLR Camera

  Brian K. Kloppenborg, Roger Pieri, Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein, Grigoris Maravelias, Tom Pearson

• Stellar Photometry With DSLR: Benchmark of Two Color Correction Techniques Toward Johnson's VJ and Tycho VT

  Roger Pieri

• Algorithms + Observations = VStar

  David Benn

• A Practical Approach to Transforming Magnitudes onto a Standard Photometric System

  David Boyd

Variable Star Data

• Recent Maxima of 55 Short Period Pulsating Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

• Recent Minima of 150 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

History and Biography

• The AAVSO 2011 Demographic and Background Survey

  Aaron Price, Kevin B. Paxson

Abstracts

• Enhancing the Educational Astronomical Experience of Non-Science Majors With the Use of an iPad and Telescope (Abstract)

  Robert M. Gill, Michael J. Burin

• Fast Spectrometer Construction and Testing (Abstract)

  John Menke

• Observations Using a Bespoke Medium Resolution Fast Spectrograph (Abstract)

  John Menke

• The Rotational Period of the Sun Using the Doppler Shift of the H-alpha Spectral Line (Abstract)

  Robert M. Gill

• A Single Beam Polarimeter (Poster abstract)

  Jerry D. Horne

Index

• Index to Volume 40

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