Volume 43 number 1 — 2015

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• The Rise and Fall and Rise of the David Dunlap Observatory

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Research

• Long Term Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of Semiregular Variable Stars

  Robert R., Jr. Cadmus

• Photometric Analyses and Spectral Identification of the Early-Spectral Type W UMa Contact Binary V444 Andromedae

  Ronald G. Samec, Russell Robb, Danny R. Faulkner, Walter Van Hamme

• The Curious Case of ASAS J174600-2321.3: an Eclipsing Symbiotic Nova in Outburst?

  Stefan Hümmerich, Sebastián Otero, Patrick Tisserand, Klaus Bernhard

• New Variable Stars Discovered by the APACHE Survey. II. Results After the Second Observing Season

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

• UXOR Hunting among Algol Variables

  Michael Poxon

• Sudden Period Change and Dimming of the Eclipsing Binary V752 Centauri

  Anthony Mallama, Hristo Pavlov

• The delta Scuti Pulsation Periods in KIC 5197256

  Garrison Turner, John Holaday

• Early-Time Flux Measurements of SN 2014J Obtained with Small Robotic Telescopes: Extending the AAVSO Light Curve

  Björn Poppe, Thorsten Plaggenborg, WeiKang Zheng, Isaac Shivvers, Koichi Itagaki, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jutta Kunz

• Recently Determined Light Elements for the delta Scuti Star ZZ Microscopii

  Roy Andrew Axelsen, Tim Napier-Munn

• A Photometric Study of ASAS J184708-3340.2: an Eclipsing Binary with Total Eclipses

  Robert C. Berrington, Erin M. Tuhey

• A Binary Model for the Emission Line Star FX Velorum

  Mel Blake, Maisey Hunter

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Comparison Between Synthetic and Photometric Magnitudes for the Sloan Standard Stars

  Anthony Mallama

• Video Technique for Observing Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Hristo Pavlov, Anthony Mallama

Variable Star Data

• Revised Light Elements of 78 Southern Eclipsing Binary Systems

  Margaret Streamer, Jeff Byron, David J. W. Moriarty, Tom Richards, Bill Allen, Roy Axelsen, Col Bembrick, Mark Blackford, Terry Bohlsen, David Herald, Roland Idaczyk, Stephen Kerr, Ranald McIntosh, Yenal Ogmen, Jonathan Powles, Peter Starr, George Stockham

• Recent Maxima of 67 Short Period Pulsating Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

• Recent Minima of 149 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

History and Biography

• Margaret Harwood and the Maria Mitchell Observatory

  James W. Hanner

• Some Personalities from Variable Star History

  Thomas R. Williams (ed.), Michael Saladyga (ed.)

• Some Personal Thoughts on TV Corvi

  David H. Levy

Abstracts

• Betelgeuse Period Analysis Using VSTAR (Abstract)

  Frank Dempsey

• EE Cep Winks in Full Color (Abstract)

  Gary Walker

• Transient Pulsation of Sirius (Abstract)

  Kangujam Yugindro Singh, Irom Ablu Meitei

• eta Carinae Continues to Evolve (Abstract)

  John C. Martin

• The Trend in the Observation of Legacy Long Period Variable Stars (Poster abstract)

  Robert Dudley

• Analysis of Hα Lines in epsilon Aurigae Post-eclipse (Poster abstract)

  Shelby Jarrett, Cybil Foster

• Discovery of Five Previously Misidentified BY Draconis Stars in ASAS Data (Poster abstract)

  Jessica Johnson, Kristine Larsen

• AAVSO and the International Year of Light (Poster abstract)

  Kristine Larsen

• Precision Photometry of Long Period Variable Stars: Flares and Bumps in the Night (Poster abstract)

  Dale Mais

• Transformation: Adjusting Your Data to the Standard Photometric Framework (Poster abstract)

  George Silvis

• The Eggen Card Project (Poster abstract)

  George Silvis

• Visual Spectroscopy of R Scuti (Poster abstract)

  Lucian Undreiu, Andrew Chapman

• Parallel Group and Sunspot Counts from SDO/HMI and AAVSO Visual Observers (Abstract)

  Rodney Howe, Jan Alvestad

• Going Over to the Dark Side (Abstract)

  David Cowall

• Photometry Transforms Generation with ptgp (Abstract)

  Gordon Myers, Ken Menzies, George Silvis, Barbara Harris

• Using vphot and ptgp to Generate Transformation Coefficients (Abstract)

  Ken Menzies, Gordon Myers

• Observational Activities at Manipur University, India (Abstract)

  Kangujam Yugindro Singh, Irom Ablu Meitei, Salam Ajitkumar Singh, Rajkumar Basanta Singh

• A Report on West Mountain Observatory Observations for the KELT Follow-up Observing Network (Abstract)

  Michael Joner

• Visual Observing: New Ideas for an Old Art? (Abstract)

  David Turner

• America’s First Variable Star (Abstract)

  John Toone

• The Future of Visual Observations in Variable Star Research: 2015 and Beyond (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• The Life of Albert Jones (Abstract)

  John Toone

• Why Do Some Cataclysmic Variables Turn Off? (Abstract)

  Kent Honeycutt

• Before the Giants: APASS Support to Ambitious Ground-based Galaxy Investigations and Space Missions Serching for Exo-Earths (Abstract)

  Ulisse Munari

• APASS and Galactic Structure (Abstract)

  Stephen Levine

• Astronomical Photometry and the Legacy of Arne Henden (Abstract)

  Michael Joner

• A Journey through CCD Astronomical Imaging Time (Abstract)

  Richard Berry

• Collaborations with Arne on Cataclysmic Variables (Abstract)

  Paula Szkody

• The History of AAVSO Charts, Part III: The Henden Era (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• Arne’s Decade (Abstract)

  Gary Walker