Volume 45 number 1 — 2017

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• Education and Public Outreach: Why and How

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Research

• Photometric Analysis of the Solar Type, Totally Eclipsing, Southern, Near Critical Contact Binary, CW Sculptoris

  Ronald G Samec, Cody L. Norris, Bob L. Hill, Walter Van Hamme, Danny R. Faulkner

• Photometric Analysis of Three ROTSE Contact Binary Systems

  Surjit S. Wadhwa

• The VESPA Survey: 100 New Variable Stars Discovered in Two Years

  Ulisse Quadri, Luca Strabla, Roberto Girelli

• Studies of the Long Secondary Periods in Pulsating Red Giants. II. Lower-Luminosity Stars

  John R. Percy, Henry Wai-Hin Leung

• High-Cadence B-Band Search for Optical Flares on CR Draconis

  Gary A. Vander Haagen

• Photometric Analysis of HD 213616: a Multi-modal Delta Scuti Variable Star

  Vance Petriew, Horace A. Smith

• A Photometric Study of the Near-Contact Binary XZ Persei

  Edward J. Michaels

• Observation of a Deep Visual "Eclipse" in the WC9-Type Wolf-Rayet Star, WR 76

  Rod Stubbings, Peredur Williams

• HD 46487 is Now a Classical Be Star

  David G. Whelan, R. David Baker

• BVRI Photometry of SN 2016coj in NGC 4125

  Michael Richmond, Brad Vietje

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Using Unfiltered Images to Perform Standard Filter Band Photometry

  Joe Garlitz

• Southern Clusters for Standardizing CCD Photometry

  Terry T. Moon

• Digital Single Lens Reflex Photometry in White Light: a New Concept Tested on Data from the High Amplitude δ Scuti Star V703 Scorpii

  Roy Andrew Axelsen

• Inter-observer Photometric Consistency Using Optec Photometers

  Tom Calderwood, Jim Kay, Scott Burgess, Erwin van Ballegoij

Variable Star Data

• Digitizing Olin Eggen's Card Database

  Jack Crast, George Silvis

• Recent Maxima of 82 Short Period Pulsating Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

• Visual Times of Maxima for Short Period Pulsating Stars I

  Gerard Samolyk

• Recent Minima of 298 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

Abstracts

• The Crucial Role of Amateur-Professional Networks in the Golden Age of Large Surveys (Abstract)

  Joseph E. Rodriguez

• The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Abstract)

  Ryan J. Oelkers

• Photometric Surveys (and Variability Studies) at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (Abstract)

  Alessandro Ederoclite

• The Role of Small Telescopes in the Upcoming Era of the Giant Magellan Telescope and Other Extremely Large Telescopes (Abstract)

  Charles Alcock

• Big Software for Big Data: Scaling Up Photometry for LSST (Abstract)

  Meredith Rawls

• The Galactic Plane Exoplanet Survey (GPX)—an Amateur Designed Transiting Exoplanet Wide-Field Search (Abstract)

  Paul Benni

• The AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) at Data Release 10 (Abstract)

  Stephen Levine

• Kepler and K2: Spawning a Revolution in Astrophysics from Exoplanets to Supernovae (Abstract)

  David Ciardi

• Exploration of the Time Domain (Abstract)

  George Djorgovski

• Clear-sky Forecasting for Variable Star Observers (Abstract)

  Frank Dempsey

• Cepheids and Miras: Recent Results and Prospects for the Era of Large Surveys (Abstract)

  Lucas Macri

• Gravitational Radiation in ES Ceti (Abstract)

  Joseph Patterson

• Observing the Low States of VY Scl Stars (Abstract)

  Linda Schmidtobreick

• Advances in Exoplanet Observing by Amateur Astronomers (Abstract)

  Dennis M. Conti

• The Impact of Large Optical Surveys on Stellar Astronomy and Variable Star Research (Abstract)

  Zeljko Ivezic

• Engaging AAVSO members in Stellar Astrophysics Follow-up from The Evryscope Data (Abstract)

  Octavi Fors, Nicholas M. Law, Jeffrey Ratzloff, Henry Corbett, Daniel del Ser, Ward Howard, Stephen Cox

• Using AAVSO Tools to Calibrate Secondary Standard Stars (Abstract)

  Michael D. Joner

• Solar Data in the J and H Bands (Abstract)

  Rodney Howe

• Variations in the Orbital Light Curve of the Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable Star QQ Vulpecula (Abstract)

  Sanaea Cooper Rose

• Coast-to-Coast Photometry: A Study in Consistency (Abstract)

  Tom Calderwood