Volume 43 number 2 — 2015

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• Variable Stars and Science and Math Education

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Research

• A Photometric Study of the Misclassified Variable AK Ursae Minoris

  Horace A. Dale III, Lauren A. Sgro

• Pulsation Properties of Carbon and Oxygen Red Giants

  John R. Percy, Danping Joanna Huang

• Observations and Analysis of Three Field RR Lyrae Stars Selected Using Single-epoch SDSS Data

  W. Lee Powell, Jr., Stephanie N. Jameson, Nathan De Lee, Ronald J. Wilhelm

• Investigation of Structure in the Light Curves of a Sample of Newly Discovered Long Period Variable Stars

  Eric R. Craine, Roger B. Culver, Richard Eykholt, K. M. Flurchick, Adam L. Kraus, Roy A. Tucker, Douglas K. Walker

• Period Analysis, Photometry, and Astrophysical Models of the Eclipsing Binary TW Crucis

  David J. W. Moriarty

• Validation of “Sloan Magnitudes for the Brightest Stars” and Suggestions for Observing with Small Telescopes

  Anthony Mallama, Bruce Krobusek

• Discovery of an “Eclipse” in the WC9d-Type Wolf-Rayet Star, WR 53

  Rod Stubbings

• A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Variable Star NSVS 3068865

  Robert C. Berrington, Erin M. Tuhey

• Early Sixty-Day Observations of V5668 Sgr Using a DSLR Camera

  Shishir Deshmukh

• Studies of RV Tauri and SRD Variables

  John R. Percy

• Recently Refined Periods for the High Amplitude delta Scuti Stars V1338 Centauri, V1430 Scorpii, and V1307 Scorpii

  Roy Andrew Axelsen

• Multi-Filter Photometric Analysis of Three β Lyrae-type Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Tyler Gardner, Gage Hahs, Vayujeet Gokhale

• Seventeen New Variable Stars Detected in Vulpecula and Perseus

  Riccardo Furgoni

• Multiband CCD Photometry of CY Aquarii Using the AAVSOnet

  David E. Cowall

• Data Mining Analysis for Eclipsing Binary TrES-Cyg3-04450

  David H. Hinzel

• New Variable Stars Discovered by Data Mining Images Taken During Recent Asteroid Photometric Observations. Results from the Year 2015

  Riccardo Papini, Lorenzo Franco, Alessandro Marchini, Fabio Salvaggio

• New Photometric Observations and the 2015 Eclipse of the Symbiotic Nova Candidate ASAS J174600-2321.3

  Franz-Josef Hambsch, Stefan Hümmerich, Klaus Bernhard, Sebastián Otero

• High-Cadence B-Band Search for Optical Flares on BY Dra

  Gary A. Vander Haagen

• Spurious One-Month and One-Year Periods in Visual Observations of Variable Stars

  John R. Percy

• Changing Periods of ST Puppis

  Stan Walker, Neil Butterworth, Andrew Pearce

• A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Binary Star BN Ari

  Edward J. Michaels

Variable Star Data

• Recent Minima of 171 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Simultaneous Collocated Photometry

  Tom Calderwood, Evan Getz, Tom McBratney, Eric Holcomb

History and Biography

• As International as They Would Let Us Be

  Virginia Trimble

Letters to the Editor

• The End of an Era

  James W. Hanner

Abstracts

• Light Curves and Period Changes for Type II Cepheids in the Globular Cluster M13 (Abstract)

  Horace A. Smith, Mary Anderson, Wayne Osborn, Andrew Layden, Grzegorz Kopacki, Barton Pritzl, Andrew Kelley, Keith McBride, Michael Alexander, Charles Kuehn, Aron Kilian, Eric King, David Carbajal, R. Lustig, Nathan De Lee

• The BSU Short Period Variable Stars Progam (Poster abstract)

  Robert Berrington, Thomas Jordan, Erin Tuhey

• Adventures in Transformations: TG, TA, Oh My! (Poster abstract)

  Marco Ciocca

• Sunlight in the Spotlight in the International Year of Light (Poster abstract)

  Kristine Larsen

• The SIDdatagrabber (Poster abstract)

  George Silvis

• Transforms Explained (Poster abstract)

  George Silvis

• Variable Star Projects—A Southern Perspective (Poster abstract)

  Andrew Pearce, Stan Walker

• Double Trouble (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• Standard Stars for the BYU H-a Photometric System (Abstract)

  Michael Joner, Eric Hintz

• Roll-Off Roof Observatory Construction (Abstract)

  Joseph H. Ulowetz

• Thomas Cragg Proves to Be a Good Observer (Abstract)

  Rodney Howe, Frédéric Clette

• Searching for Motion within the Solar Atmosphere (Abstract)

  Susan N. Oatney

• Study of Eclipsing Binary Systems NSVS 7322420 and NSVS 5726288 (Abstract)

  Matthew Knote

• A Search for Exoplanets in Short-Period Eclipsing Binary Star Systems (Abstract)

  Ronald Kaitchuck, Garrison Turner, Joseph Childers

• Stellar Presentations (Abstract)

  Donna Young

• The Nature of Z Cam Standstills (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• The Lyncis Two for One Special (Abstract)

  Michael Joner, Eric Hintz

• Automated Supernova Discovery (Abstract)

  Richard S. Post

• IM Normae: A Second T Pyx? (Abstract)

  Joe Patterson, Berto Monard, Paul Warhurst, Gordon Myers

• Globular Cluster Variable Stars—Atlas and Coordinate Improvement using AAVSOnet Telescopes (Abstract)

  Doug Welch, Arne Henden, Taylor Bell, Cissy Suen, Ian Fare, Alison Sills

• A LARI Experience (Abstract)

  Michael Cook

Index

• Index to Volume 43