Volume 41 number 2 — 2013

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• Editorial: The Unsung Heroes of the Scientific Publication Process--The Referees

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Research

• Comments on the UBV Photometric System's Defining Standard Stars

  Arlo U. Landolt

• Discovery of Pulsating Components in the Southern Eclipsing Binary Systems AW Velorum, HM Puppis, and TT Horologii

  David J. W. Moriarty, Terry Bohlsen, Bernard Heathcote, Tom Richards, Margaret Streamer

• Amplitude Variations in Pulsating Red Giants

  John R. Percy, Romina Abachi

• V784 Ophiuchi: an RR Lyrae Star With Multiple Blazhko Modulations

  Pierre! de Ponthière, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Tom Krajci, Kenneth Menzies

• Simultaneous CCD Photometry of Two Eclipsing Binary Stars in Pegasus--Part 2: BX Pegasi

  Kevin B. Alton

• V2331 Cygni is an Algol Variable With Deep Eclipses

  Hans Bengtsson, Pierre Hallsten, Anders Hemlin, Gustav Holmberg, Thomas Karlsson, Robert! Wahlström, Tomas Wikander

• Data Mining the OGLE-II I-band Database for Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Marco Ciocca

• Eighteen New Variable Stars in Cassiopeia and Variability Checking for NSV 364

  Riccardo Furgoni

• UV-B and B-band Optical Flare Search in AR Lacertae, II Pegasi, and UX Arietis Star Systems

  Gary A. Vander Haagen

• The Naked-eye Optical Transient OT 120926

  Yue Zhao, Patrick B. Hall, Paul Delaney, J. Sandal

• Maxima and O-C Diagrams for 489 Mira Stars

  Thomas Karlsson

Variable Star Data

• Recent Minima of 199 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

• I-band Measurements of Red Giant Variables: Methods and Photometry of 66 Stars

  Terry T. Moon

Education and Outreach

• Monitoring Solar Activity Trends With a Simple Sunspotter

  Kristine Larsen

Book Reviews

• Book Review: The Life and Death of Stars (Lang)

  John B. Lester

• Book Review: Meeting Venus--a Collection of Papers Presented at the Venus Transit Conference, Tromsø 2012 (Sterken and Aspaas, eds.)

  John R. Percy

Abstracts

• AAVSO High Energy Network: Past and Present (Abstract)

  Matthew R. Templeton

• Late-time Observations of Novae (Abstract)

  Arne A. Henden

• Working Together to Understand Novae (Abstract)

  Jennifer L. Sokoloski

• Deriving Definitive Parameters for the Long Period Cepheid S Vulpeculae (Abstract)

  David G. Turner

• The Z CamPaign Year Four (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• Observations of an Eclipse of Bright Star b Persei by the Third Star in February 2013 (Abstract)

  Donald F. Collins

• Periodic Brightness Fluctuations in the 2012 Outburst of SN 2009ip (Abstract)

  John Martin

• Color of the Night Sky (Abstract)

  Gary Walker

• Kalman Filtering and Variable Stars (Abstract)

  Gary Walker

• The Astronomer Who Came in from the Cold: the Evolution of Observing Variable Stars Over Three Decades at Appalachian State's Dark Sky Observatory (Abstract)

  Dan Caton

• Astronomy: Hobby or Obsession? (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

Index

• Index to Volume 41

  Anon.