Volume 42 number 1 — 2014

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Articles in This Issue

Variable Star Research

• Amplitude Variations in Pulsating Red Supergiants

  John R. Percy, Viraja C. Khatu

• New R Coronae Borealis and DY Persei Star Candidates and Other Related Objects Found in Photometric Surveys

  Sebastián Otero, Stefan Hümmerich, Klaus Bernhard, Igor Soszyński

• New Light Elements for the High Amplitude delta Scuti Star BS Aquarii

  Roy Andrew Axelsen

• New Light Elements for the High Amplitude delta Scuti Star RS Gruis

  Roy Andrew Axelsen

• Multi-Longitude Observation Campaign of KV Cancri: an RR Lyrae Star with Irregular Blazhko Modulations

  Pierre de Ponthière, Michel Bonnardeau, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Tom Krajci, Kenneth Menzies, Richard Sabo

• Multicolor CCD Photometry and Period Analysis of Three Pulsating Variable Stars

  Kevin B. Alton

• New Variable Stars Discovered by the APACHE Survey. I. Results After the First Obsereving Season

  Mario Damasso, Andrea Bernagozzi, Enzo Bertolini, Paolo Calcidese, Albino Carbognani, Davide Cenadelli, Jean Marc Christille, Paolo Giacobbe, Luciano Lanteri, Mario G. Lattanzi, Richard Smart, Allesandro Sozzetti

• New Observations of Close Eclipsing Binary Systems With delta Scuti Pulsations

  Garrison Turner, Ronald Kaitchuck, John Holaday

• Three New Eccentric Eclipsing Binary Systems in the OGLE-II Database

  Marco Ciocca, Stefan Hümmerich

• The Light Curve and Period of MT696

  Steven P. Souza, Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann, Mona Sami

• 125-Day Spectral Record of the Bright Nova Delphini 2013 (V339 Del)

  HOward D. Mooers, William S. Wiethoff

• New Observations of the Am Star BP Octantis

  Terry T. Moon, John L. Innis

• Z Cam Stars in the Twenty-First Century

  Mike Simonsen, David Boyd, William Goff, Tom Krajci, Kenneth Menzies, Sebastián Otero, Stefano Padovan, Gary Poyner, James Roe, Richard Sabo, George Sjoberg, Bart Staels, Rod Stubbings, John Toone, Patrick Wils

• ST Chamaeleontis and BP Coronae Australis: Two Southern Dwarf Novae Confirmed as Z Cam Stars

  Mike Simonsen, Terry Bohlsen, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Rod Stubbings

• OQ Carinae--A New Southern Z Cam-Type Dwarf Nova

  Rod Stubbings, Mike Simonsen

• The Ellipsoidal Variable b Persei

  Steven L. Morris

• Analysis of Seven Years of Globe at Night Data

  Jennifer J. Birriel, Constance E. Walker, Cory R. Thornsberry

Variable Star Data

• Recent Maxima of 75 Short Period Pulsating Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Detecting Problematic Observer Offsets in Sparse Photometry

  Tom Calderwood

History and Biography

• Leslie Peltier: The World’s Greatest Amateur Astronomer

  Mike Simonsen

Abstracts

• The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Mission (Abstract)

  George R. Ricker

• Photometry of Bright Variable Stars With the BRITE Constellation Nano-Satellites: Opportunities for Amateur Astronomers (Abstract)

  Edward F. Guinan

• A Study of RR1 Light Curve Modulation in OGLE-III Bulge Time-series (Abstract)

  Douglas L. Welch

• Kepler and the RR Lyrae Stars (Abstract)

  Katrien Kolenberg

• Using the Transient Surveys (Abstract)

  Arne, A. Henden

• Unpredictable LPVs: Stars Dropped from the AAVSO Bulletin (Abstract)

  Matthew R. Templeton, Elizabeth O. Waagen

• Two Centuries of Observing R Coronae Borealis: What will the Role of the AAVSO be in the Next Century? (Abstract)

  Geoffrey C. Clayton

• Aperture Fever and the Quality of AAVSO Visual Estimates: mu Cephei as an Example (Abstract)

  David G. Turner

• The Eggen Card Project (Abstract)

  George Silvis

• Identification of Cepheid Variables in ASAS Data (Poster abstract)

  Vanessa Swenton, Kristine Larsen

• AAVSO Visual Sunspot Observations vs. SDO HMI Sunspot Catalog (Abstract)

  Rodney Howe

• Identification of BY Draconis Variable Stars Among ASAS Cepheid Candidates (Poster abstract)

  Jessica Johnson, Kristine Larsen

• Summer Student Solar Observing Project Determining the Sunspot Number (Poster abstract)

  Brian Mason

• The DASCH Public Data Release (Poster abstract)

  Edward J. Los

• Coding the Eggen Cards (Poster abstract)

  George Silvis

Errata

• Erratum: Collins, Donald F., Vol 41, pp. 149-150

  Anon.

• Erratum: Collins, Donald F., Vol 41, pp. 149-150

  Donald F. Collins