Volume 45 number 2 — 2017

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• JAAVSO: Past, Present, and Future

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Research

• A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Binary QT Ursae Majoris

  Edward J. Michaels

• Observations and Analysis of the Extreme Mass Ratio, High Fill-out Solar Type Binary, V1695 Aquilae

  Ronald G. Samec, Christopher R. Gray, Daniel Caton, Danny R. Faulkner, Robert Hill, Walter Van Hamme

• BVRI Photometric Study of the High Mass Ratio, Detached, Pre-contact W UMa Binary GQ Cancri

  Ronald G. Samec, Amber Olsen, Daniel Caton, Danny R. Faulkner

• Multi-color Photometry of the Hot R Coronae Borealis Star, MV Sagittarii

  Arlo U. Landolt, James L. Clem

• New Observations of AD Serpentis

  Samantha Raymond, Ximena Morales, Wayne Osborn

• BVRcIc Study of the Short Period Solar Type, Near Contact Binary, NSVS 10083189

  Ronald G. Samec, Amber Olsen, Daniel B. Caton, Danny R. Faulkner, Robert L. Hill

• Evidence for High Eccentricity and Apsidal Motion in the Detached Eclipsing Binary GSC 04052-01378

  Riccardo Furgoni, Gary Billings

• Preliminary Modeling of the Eclipsing Binary Star GSC 05765-01271

  Sara Marullo, Alessandro Marchini, Lorenzo Franco, Riccardo Papini, Fabio Salvaggio

• Amplitude Variations in Pulsating Red Giants. II. Some Systematics

  John R. Percy, Jennifer Laing

• Improving the Photometric Calibration of the Enigmatic Star KIC 8462852

  Adam J. Lahey, Douglas M. Dimick, Andrew C. Layden

Variable Star Data

• Visual Times of Maxima for Short Period Pulsating Stars II

  Gerard Samolyk

• Recent Minima of 196 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

• New Variable Stars Discovered by Data Mining Images Taken during Recent Asteroid Photometric Observations. II. Results from July 2015 through December 2016

  Riccardo Papini, Alessandro Marchini, Fabio Salvaggio, Davide Agnetti, Paolo Bacci, Massimo Banfi, Giorgio Bianciardi, Matteo Collina, Lorenzo Franco, Gianni Galli, Mauro Ghiri, Alessandro Milani, Claudio Lopresti, Giuseppe Marino, Luca Rizzuti, Nello Ruocco, Ulisse Quadri

Abstracts

• OV Bootis: Forty Nights of World-Wide Photometry (Abstract)

  Joseph Patterson, Enrique de Miguel, Douglas Barret, Stephen Brincat, James Boardman Jr., , Denis Buczynski, Tut Campbell, David Cejudo, Lew Cook, Michael J. Cook, , Donald Collins, Walt Cooney, Franky Dubois, Shawn Dvorak, Jules P. Halpern,, Anthony J. Kroes, Damien Lemay, Domenico Licchelli, Dylan Mankel, Matt Marshall,, Rudolf Novak, Arto Oksanen, George Roberts, Jim Seargeant, Huei Sears,, Austin Silcox, Douglas Slauson, Geoff Stone, J. R. Thorstensen, Joe Ulowetz,, Tonny Vanmunster, John Wallgren, Matt Wood

• An Ongoing Program for Monitoring the Moon for Meteoroid Impacts (Abstract)

  Brian Cudnik, Seth Saganti, Fazal Ali, Salman Ali, Trevannie Beharie, Brittany Anugwom

• Taxonomy Discrimination of the Tina Asteroid Family via Photometric Color Indices (Abstract)

  Mattia A. Galiazzo, Werner W. Zeilinger, Giovanni Carraro, Dagmara Oszkiewicz

• Observations of the Star Cor Caroli at the Apple Valley Workshop 2016 (Abstract)

  Reed Estrada, Sidney Boyd, Chris Estrada, Cody Evans, Hannah Rhoades, Mark Rhoades, Trevor Rhoades

• Exoplanet Observing: from Art to Science (Abstract)

  Dennis M. Conti, Jack Gleeson

• Multiwavelength Observations of the Eclipsing Binary NSV 3438 between January 2013 and March 2016 (Abstract)

  Carter M. Becker

• New Observations and Analysis of zeta Phoenicis (Abstract)

  Coen van Antwerpen, Tex Moon

• WD1145+017 (Abstract)

  Mario Motta

• Spectrophotometry of Symbiotic Stars (Abstract)

  David Boyd

• How to Use Astronomical Spectroscopy to Turn the Famous Yellow Sodium Doublet D Bands into a Stellar Speedometer and Thermometer (Abstract)

  Joshua Christian, Matthew King, John W. Kenney III

• Modeling Systematic Differences in Photometry by Different Observers (Abstract)

  John C. Martin

• How Faint Can You Go? (Abstract)

  Arne Henden

• Shoestring Budget Radio Astronomy (Abstract)

  John E. Hoot

• Using All-Sky Imaging to Improve Telescope Scheduling (Abstract)

  Gary M. Cole

• A Community-Centered Astronomy Research Program (Abstract)

  Pat Boyce, Grady Boyce

• Engaging Teenagers in Astronomy Using the Lens of Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core State Standards (Abstract)

  Sean Gillette, Debbie Wolf, Jeremiah Harrison

• An Overview of Ten Years of Student Research and JDSO Publications (Abstract)

  Rachel Freed, Michael Fitzgerald, Russell Genet, Brendan Davidson

• Use of the AAVSO's International Variable Star Index (VSX) in an Undergraduate Astronomy Course Capstone Project (Abstract)

  Kristine Larsen

• Student Scientific Research within Communities-of-Practice (Abstract)

  Russell Genet, James Armstrong, Philip Blanko, Grady Boyce, Pat Boyce, Mark Brewer, Robert Buchheim, Jae Calanog, Diana Castaneda, Rebecca Chamberlin, R. Kent Clark, Dwight Collins, Dennis Conti, Sebastien Cormier, Michael FItzgerald, Chris Estrada, Reed Estrada, Rachel Freed, Edward Gomez, Paul Hardersen, Richard Harshaw, Jolyon Johnson, Stella Kafka, John Kenney, Kakkala Monanan, John Ridgely, David Rowe, Mark Silliman, Irena Stojimirovic, Kalee Tock, Douglas Walker

• The SPIRIT Telescope Initiative: Six Years On (Abstract)

  Paul Luckas

• Techniques of Photometry and Astrometry with APASS, Gaia, and Pan-STARRs Results (Abstract)

  Wayne Green

• Exploring the Unknown: Detection of Fast Variability of Starlight (Abstract)

  Richard H. Stanton

• A Wide Band SpectroPolarimeter (Abstract)

  John Menke

• A Slitless Spectrograph That Provides Reference Marks (revised 2017) (Abstract)

  Tom Buchanan

• Astronomical Instrumentation Systems Quality Management Planning: AISQMP (Abstract)

  Jesse Goldbaum

• Scintillation Reduction using Conjugate-Plane Imaging (Abstract)

  Gary A. Vander Haagen

Errata

• Erratum: Visual Times of Maxima for Short Period Pulsating Stars I

  Gerard Samolyk