Volume 46 number 2 — 2018

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• Variable Stars: The View from Up Here

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Research

• Period Study and Analysis of 2017 BVRcIc Observations of the Totally Eclipsing, Solar Type Binary, MT Camelopardalis

  Ronald G. Samec, Daniel B. Caton, Danny R. Faulkner

• The First BVRcIc Precision Observations and Preliminary Photometric Analysis of the Near Contact TYC 1488-693-1

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

• Photometry and Light Curve Modeling of HO Piscium and V535 Pegasi

  Rahim Heidarnia

• A Study of Pulsation and Fadings in some R Coronae Borealis (RCB) Stars

  John R. Percy, Kevin H. Dembski

• Multi-color Photometry, Roche Lobe Analysis and Period Study of the Overcontact Binary System, GW Bootis

  Kevin B. Alton

• Photometry of Fifteen New Variable Sources Discovered by IMSNG

  Seoyeon Choi , Myungshin Im, Changsu Choi

• New Observations, Period, and Classification of V552 Cassiopeiae

  Emil J. L. Pellett

Education and Outreach

• Creating Music Based on Quantitative Data from Variable Stars

  Cristian A. Droppelmann, Ronald E. Mennickent

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Singular Spectrum Analysis: Illustrated by Application to S Persei and RZ Cassiopeiae

  Geoff B. Chaplin

• Unmanned Aerial Systems for Variable Star Astronomical Observations

  David H. Hinzel

Variable Star Data

• New Variables Discovered by Data Mining Images Taken During Recent Asteroid Photometric Surveys at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Siena: Results for the Year 2017

  Alessandro Marchini, Riccardo Papini, Fabio Salvaggio, Claudio Arena, Davide Agnetti, Mauro Bachini, Giacomo Succi, Massimo Banfi

• Visual Times of Maxima for Short Period Pulsating Stars IV

  Gerard Samolyk

• Recent Minima of 266 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

Abstracts

• The HOYS-CAPS Citizen Science Project (Abstract)

  Dirk Froebrich

• Recent Activity of SU Aurigae (Abstract)

  Michael Poxon

• Evidence for Starspots on T Tauri Stars (Abstract)

  Andrew Wilson

• The Discovery of TT Crateris (Abstract)

  John Toone

• AR Scorpii: a Remarkable Highly Variable Star Discovered by Amateur Astronomers (Abstract)

  Thomas Marsh

• Long Term Orbital Behavior of Eclipsing SW Sextantis Stars (Abstract)

  David Boyd

• Seven Years on the ROAD (Remote Observatory Atacama Desert) (Abstract)

  Franz-Josef Hambsch

• Long Term Spectroscopic Monitoring of the Brightest Symbiotic Stars (Abstract)

  Francois Teyssier

• Gaia: Transforming Stellar Astronomy (Abstract)

  Boris Gaensicke

• Starting in Spectroscopy (Abstract)

  Francois Cochard

• Pushing the Limits Using Commercial Spectrographs (Abstract)

  Robin Leadbeater

• Towards Full Automation of High Resolution Spectroscopy (Abstract)

  Andrew Smith

• Applying Transformation and Extinction to Magnitude Estimate—How Much Does It Improve Results? (Abstract)

  Gordon Myers, Ken Menzies

• Red Dots Initiative: Science and Opportunities in Finding Planets Around the Nearest Red-Dwarfs (Abstract)

  Guillem Anglada Escude

• How To Find Planets and Black Holes with Microlensing Events (Abstract)

  Lukasz Wyrzykowski

• Short Period Eclipsing sdB Binaries and the Claims for Circumbinary Objects (Abstract)

  George Faillace, D. Pulley, D. Smith, A. Watkins, S. von Harrach

• RZ Cassiopeiae: Light Curve and Orbital Period Variations (Abstract)

  Geoff Chaplin

• Williamina Paton Fleming’s “Un-named” Variables and the AAVSO: A Scientific and Historical Perspective (Abstract)

  Kristine Larsen

• Cataclysmic Variables as Universal Accretion Laboratories (Abstract)

  Christian Knigge

• SN1987A and Connections to Red Novae (Abstract)

  Thomas Morris

• Rho Cassiopeiae—an Update (Abstract)

  Des Loughney

• American Medical Association Statement on Street Lighting (Abstract)

  Mario Motta