Volume 42 number 2 — 2014

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Articles in This Issue

Variable Star Research

• Does the Period of a Pulsating Star Depend on its Amplitude?

  John R. Percy, Jeong Yeon Yook

• CT Lacertae: Another Long-period Carbon Star with Long-Timescale Variations?

  Matthew R Templeton, Peter Maurer, Wolfgang Kriebel, Wayne M. Lowder, Etienne Morelle, Steve O'Connor, Andrzej Arminski, Laurent Bichon, John E. Bortle

• Amplitude Variations in Pulsating Yellow Supergiants

  John R. Percy, Rufina Y. H. Kim

• Long-term Secular Changes in the Period of Mira Stars

  Thomas Karlsson

• EQ Eridani, a Multiperiodic delta Scuti Star

  Roy Andrew Axelsen

• Current Light Elements of the delta Scuti Star V393 Carinae

  Roy Andrew Axelsen

• AL Pictoris and FR Piscium: Two Regular Blazhko RR Lyrae Stars

  Pierre de Ponthière, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Kenneth Menzies, Richard Sabo

• Observations of Novae from ROAD

  Franz-Josef Hambsch

• BVRI Photometry of SN 2013ej in M74

  Michael W. Richmond

• Multi-band Differential Photometry of the Eclipsing Variable Star NSVS 5750160

  Robert C. Berrington, Erin M. Tuhey

• First Photometric Study of the Short Period Solar Type Binary V1073 Herculis and the Possible Detection of a Dwarf Companion

  Ronald G. Samec, James Kring, Justin Benkendorf, James Dignan, Walter Van Hamme, Danny R. Faulkner

• The Challenge of Observing the zeta Aurigae Binary Stars

  Frank J. Melillo

Variable Star Data

• Report on the Photometric Observations of the Variable Stars DH Pegasi, DY Pegasi, and RZ Cephei

  Ibrahim Abu-Sharkh, Shuxing Fang, Sahil Mehta, Dang Pham

• 23 New Variable Stars

  Maurice Clark

• Twenty-Two New Variable Stars in the Northern Sky and Light Elements Improvement for PT Lyr, [WM2007] 1157, and [WM2007] 1160

  Riccardo Furgoni

• Recent Minima of 161 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Sloan Magnitudes for the Brightest Stars

  Anthony Mallama

• Methods for O-C (Observed Minus Computed) Diagrams and for the Determination of Light Elements of Variable Stars with Linear and Second Order Polynomial Ephemerides

  Roy Andrew Axelsen

Education and Outreach

• Analysis of Great World Wide Star Count Data: 2007–2013

  Jennifer J. Birriel, Jessica N. Farrell, Dennis Ward

Abstracts

• Recovering from the Classical-Nova Disaster (Abstract)

  Joseph Patterson

• How Many R Coronae Borealis Stars Are There Really? (Abstract)

  Geoffrey C. Clayton

• Surveying for Historical Supernovae Light Echoes in the Milky Way Field (Abstract)

  Doug L. Welch

• A Crowd Sourced Light Curve for SN 2014G (Abstract)

  John C. Martin

• The Asynchronous Polar V1432 Aquilae and Its Path Back to Synchronism (Abstract)

  David Boyd, Joseph Patterson, William Allen, Greg Bolt, Michel Bonnardeau, Tut Campbell, Jeannie Campbell, David Cejudo, Michael Cook, Enrique de Miguel, Claire Ding, Shawn Dvorak, Jerrold L. Foote, Robert Fried, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Jonathan Kemp, Thomas Krajci, Berto Monard, Yemal Ogmen, Robert Rea, George Roberts, David Skillman, Donn Starkey, Joseph Ulowetz, Helena Uthas, Stan Walker

• The Z CamPaign: Year Five (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• Modern V Photometry of the Eclipsing Triple System b Persei (Abstract)

  Donald F. Collins, Jason Sanborn, Robert T. Zavala

• A Search for Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars in the General Field Population (Abstract)

  Douglas Walker, Michael Albrow

• Undergraduate Observations of Separation and Position Angle of Double Stars WDS J05460+2119AB (ARY 6AD and ARY 6 AE) at Manzanita Observatory (Abstract)

  Michael J. Hoffert, Eric Weise, Jenna Clow, Jacquelyn Hirzel, Brett Leeder, Scott Mulyneux, Nicholas Scutti, Sarah Spartalis, Corey Takuhara

• Kitt Peak Speckle Interferometry of Close Visual Binary Stars (Abstract)

  Russell Genet, David Rowe, Thomas C. Smith, Alex Teiche, Richard Harshaw, Daniel Wallace, Eric Weise, Edward Wiley, Grady Boyce, Patrick Boyce, Detrick Branston, Kayla Chaney, R. Kent Clark, Chris Estrada, Reed Estrada, Thomas Frey, Wayne L. Green, Nathalie Haurberg, Greg Jones, John Kenney, Sheri Loftin, Izak McGieson, Rikita Patel, Josh Plummer, John Ridgely, Mark Trueblood, Don Westergren, Paul Wren

• Orion Project: A Photometry and Spectroscopy Project for Small Observatories (Abstract)

  Jeffrey L. Hopkins

• Pushing the Envelope: CCD Flat Fielding (Abstract)

  James Vail

• Impact of Observing Parameters on 17 Nights with Nova Del 2013 (Abstract)

  Wayne L. Green

• Simplifed Color Photometry Using APASS Data (Abstract)

  Nicholas Dunckel

• Measuring Double Stars with a Dobsonian Telescope by the Video Drift Method (Abstract)

  Rick Wasson

• An Experiment in Photometric Data Reduction of Rapid Cadence Flare Search Data (Abstract)

  Gary A. Vander Haagen, Larry E. Owings

• Toward Millimagnitude Photometric Calibration (Abstract)

  Eric Dose

• Spectro-Polarimetry: Another New Frontier (Abstract)

  John Menke

• A Strategy for Urban Astronomical Observatory Site Preservations: The Southern Arizona Example (Abstract)

  Eric R. Craine, Brian L. Craine, Patrick R. Craine, Erin M. Craine, Scott Fouts

• SkyGlowNet Sky Brightness Meter (iSBM) Nodes: Cerritos Observatory Station, Tucson, Arizona, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado (Abstract)

  Roger B. Culver, Erin M. Craine, Heather Michalak

• Got Scope? The Benefits of Visual Telescopic Observing in the College Classroom (Abstract)

  Kristine Larsen

• Ground-based Efforts to Support a Space-based Experiment: the Latest LADEE Results (Abstract)

  Brian Cudnik, Mahmudur Rahman

Errata

• Errata: Damasso, Mario et al., Vol. 42, pp. 99–123

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

• Errata: Williams, Thomas R., Vol. 40, pp. 77–91

  Thomas R. Williams

• Erratum 2

  Anon.

Index

• Index to Volume 42

  Anon.