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Editorial Comment
Elizabeth O. Waagen
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Table of Contents
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Preface
Janet A. Mattei, Michel Grenon
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Welcoming Address
Stéphane Berthet
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Address to AAVSO Participants
Michel Delaloye
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Acknowledgements
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Meeting hosts, local organizing committee, scientific organizing committee, meeting co-sponsors
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List of Participants
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The Impact of Ground-Based Monitoring by Variable Star
Observers (Abstract)
Janet A. Mattei
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The HIPPARCOS Mission: a New Era for Variable Star Astronomy (Abstract)
M. Grenon, L. Eyer
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Long-Term High-Precision Monitoring of Variable Stars
Gilbert Burki
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The Massive Variable Star Returns From the Search for MACHOs
Kem H. Cook
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Some EROS Survey Results for Variable Stars in the Magellanic
Clouds
J. P. Beaulieu, R. Ferlet,
J. B. Marquette,
A. Vidal-Madjar
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In Quest of Variable Stars With Near-Infrared Surveys (Abstract)
Nicholas Epchtein
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The Impact on Interactive Binary Research: 18.5 Years of Space
Observations With the IUE Satellite (Abstract)
R. Viotti, D. de Martino, B. T. Gänsicke, R. González-Riestra
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X-Ray Observations in the AXAF Era and NASA's Public
Outreach Plans (Abstract)
F. Rick Harnden, Jr
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Interferometric Surveys and Results on Variable Stars: Now and
in the Future
Margarita Karovska
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Supernova Searches
Peter M. Garnavich
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Discovering Supernovae Using a CCD Camera (Abstract)
Mark Armstrong
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Robotic Telescopes on the Internet and the Study of Variable
Stars (Abstract)
John Baruch
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The Three-Reflection, Two-Mirror Telescope (TRT): a Compact
Instrument for Wide Field Astronomy (Abstract)
JM. Amoretti, M. Badiali, C. La Padula, D. Nanni, A. Preite-Martinez, A. Vignato, R. Viotti
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Stellar Spectra and the "Virtual Observatory" Project
R. Elizabeth Griffin
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Overview of Stellar Pulsations and Driving Mechanisms in Relation
to the Evolution of Stars (Abstract)
André Maeder
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Pulsating B Stars Discovered by HIPPARCOS (Abstract)
C. Aerts, C. Waelkens,
P. De cat,
K. Kolenberg,
E. Kestens, M. Grenon,
L. Eyer
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Stellar Variability in the Lower Part of the Classical Instability
Strip (Abstract)
E. Poretti,
F. Musazzi
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CCD Light Curves for Unstudied RR Lyrae Variables in the Core
of M5 (Abstract)
Vincenzo Ripepi
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New CCD Photometry of RR Lyrae Stars in NGC 3201 (Abstract)
A. Piersimoni, Vincenzo Ripepi
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A High-Speed Photometric Survey of Normal and Peculiar A-Type Stars (Abstract)
O. M. Kurtanidze,
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New Insights into the S Doradus Phenomenon and the Micro-Variations of Eight Luminous Blue Variables (Abstract)
M. de Groot, A. M. van Genderen, C. Sterken
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Comparison of Visual and Photoelectric Photometry for Bright
Cepheids (Abstract)
Grant Foster, Wayne M. Lowder, Edward J. Oravec
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Linear Polarimetric Variations of RV Tauri Stars (Abstract)
Kazuo Yoshioka, Keiichi Saijo, Hideo Sato
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What Makes a Star Act Like a Mira? —and Other Conclusions
From Dynamical Atmosphere Models
L. A. Willson
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Ground-Based and ISO Observations of Semiregular and Mira
Variables
Josef Hron
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Pulsation Modes and Fundamental Parameters of Mira Stars (Abstract)
Dominique Barthès
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Four Neglected Southern Mira Stars (Abstract)
Thomas A. Cragg
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R Centauri, an Interesting Southern Variable
aime R. García, Sergio A. Dominguez
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Statistical Period Analysis of Mira Type Variables (Abstract)
Hideo Sato, Keiichi Saijo, Kazuo Yoshioka, Janet A. Mattei
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Correlations Between Characteristics of Mean Light Curves
of Long Period Variables
Ivan L. Andronov, Larisa S. Kudashkina
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Period Analysis of the Light Curves of Three Semiregular
Variables: AA Cygni, U Delphini, and RX Bootis
Jerzy Speil
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Microvariability of Red Giant Stars
N. Mowlavi, A. Jorissen
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The First Radial Velocity Curve for CK Camelopardalis
(Abstract)
N. A. Gorynya,
N. N. Samus
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Cataclysmic Variables: From Radio to Gamma-Rays
Brian Warner
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New Insights On Cataclysmic Variables From HST Spectroscopy
E. M. Sion
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The EUVE Dwarf Nova Project (Abstract)
Christopher W. Mauche, Janet A. Mattei
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Unsolved Problems in the Evolution of Interacting Binary
Stars
Ronald F. Webbink |
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Backyard Research on Cataclysmic Variables by a Consortium of
Professional and Amateur Astronomers: DV UMa—A Case Study
Tonny Vanmunster
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The RXTE, ROSAT, IUE, EUVE, Optical Campaign Covering
the 45-Day Supercycle of V1159 Orionis (Abstract)
Paula Szkody, Kent Honeycutt,
Jeff Robertson, Andrew Silber,
D. W. Hoard,
Lora Pastwick, Ivan Hubeny,
John Cannizzo, William Liller, Ronald Zissell, Gary Walker, Constanze la Dous, Janet Drew
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High Resolution Time-resolved UCLES Spectroscopy of AE Aqr:
I. The Secondary Star Revealed (Abstract)
Juan Echevarria, Francisco Diego, David Mills, Robert Connon Smith
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The Characteristics of the Cool Component of the Cataclysmic
Variable AE Aquarii From HIPPARCOS Observations
Michael Friedjung
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Parameters of the Dwarf Nova SS Cygni Obtained From UBV
Photoelectric Light Curve Analysis
Irina Voloshina,
Tatiana Khruzina
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Statistical Analyses of the AAVSO Light Curves of Z
Camelopardalis and AH Herculis (Abstract)
Tansel Ak, M. Türker Özkan
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Recent CCD-Image Observations of RW Ursae Minoris
Hasan H. Esenoğlu, M. Türker Özkan
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The UV Luminosity of Z Cam Type Dwarf Novae (Abstract)
M. Türker Özkan, Hulusi Gülseçen,
Hasan H. Esenoğlu, Tansel Ak, A. Talat Saygaç
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Analysis of AAVSO Records of the Star Z Camelopardalis
Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Janet A. Mattei, Scott Kenyon
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Polars, a Growing Family
Boris T. Gänsicke, Klaus Beuermann, Janet A. Mattei
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Photometric Observations of Four Old Novae for Timescales
From Decades to Minutes (Abstract)
S. Yu. Shugarov, E. P. Pavlenko
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The Variability of Stars—Supernovae Precursors
Olga A. Tsiopa
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A Catalogue of X-Ray Binaries (Abstract)
Oktay Guseinov, A. Talat Saygaç, Ahad Allakhverdiyev, Hulya Çalişkan
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Information About New Books on Highly Evolved Close Binary
Stars (Abstract)
A. M. Cherepashchuk,
N. A. Katysheva,
T. S. Khruzina,
S. Yu. Shugarov
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Variability and Orbital Parameters for Symbiotic Stars
Hans Martin Schmid
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The Light Curves of Classical Symbiotic Stars
Augustin Skopal
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The Photometry of Four Symbiotic Stars: UV Aur, TX CVn, BF
Cyg, and V1016 Cyg for the Last 100 Years (Abstract)
S. Yu. Shugarov,
O. A. Ul'janikhina
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Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Symbiotic Stars
Hans Martin Schmid,
I. Appenzeller,
J. Krautter ,
H. Mandel, J. Barnstedt,
M. Gölz,
M. Grewing,
W. Gringel,
C. Haas,
W. Hopfensitz,
N. Kappelmann,
G. Krämer
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HIPPARCOS Astrometric Observations of Symbiotic Stars
(Abstract)
A. Emanuele,
R. Viotti,
D. Cardini ,
M. Badiali
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Periodic and Aperiodic Variability of Symbiotic Stars (Abstract)
Lidia L. Chinarova
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Light Curve Solution for Early-type Binary Systems With
Radiative Interaction
H. Drechsel
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| 177 |
Classification of the Fine Effects in the Light Curves of
Eclipsing Binary Stars (Abstract)
Igor Kudzej
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On the Feasibility of Using Eclipsing Binary Timings as Probes
for Extrasolar Planets
Raymond D. Benge, Jr.
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Determining the Period of an Eclipsing Binary: DHK41 (Abstract)
Daniel H. Kaiser, Gary Frey
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Database of Times of Minima for Eclipsing Binaries as Part of a
General Multiple Stars Database (Abstract)
M. Kurpińska-Winiarska
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Observational Evidence for a Third Body in AS Camelopardalis
(Abstract)
V. S. Kozyreva,
A. I. Zakharov
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An Unusual Brightening of the Eclipsing Binary RZ Cassiopeiae
Wayne M. Lowder
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How to Improve Reliability of Visual Data for Eclipsing Binaries
(Abstract)
Jindřich Šilhán
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| 184 |
Light Curves of Some Chromospherically Active Binary Stars
(Abstract)
Günay Taş,
Emre Işik,
Serdar Evren,
Zeynel Tunca
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| 185 |
Eccentric Eclipsing Binaries: Tests of General Relativity
Marek Wolf
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| 187 |
Now Is the Time to Revisit V725 Sagittari
Amelia Wehlau, Tara (Atcheson) Sopoco, Serge Demers
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Photoelectric Photometry of Two Chromospherically Active Stars:
HD 29697 (= V834 Tau) and HD 82443
Emre Işik, Günay Taş,
Serdar Evren,
Zeynel Tunca
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Flare Star Research—A New Field of Astronomy for Photometrists
Observing With CCD Cameras
Gábor Szécsényi-Nagy
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| 197 |
Monitoring Blazars at Abastumani Observatory (Abstract)
O. M. Kurtanidze,
M. G. Nikolashvili
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| 197 |
Thoughts on a Database of Light Curve Extrema of Periodic
Variable Stars (Abstract)
M. Zejda
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| 198 |
"Asymptotic Parabolic" Fit for Light Curves
Ivan L. Andronov, Vladislava I. Marsakova
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| 201 |
Non-Parametric Methods for Periodogram Analysis: Test Function
Interrelations and Properties
Ivan L. Andronov, Lidia L. Chinarova
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| 204 |
Time Series Analysis of Amateur Observations: Various Methods
and Some Results
Ivan L. Andronov
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| 206 |
The General Catalogue of Variable Stars in a Changing World
(Abstract)
N. N. Samus
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| 206 |
The AAVSO and Its Activities (Abstract)
Janet A. Mattei
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| 206 |
Observing Down Under (Abstract)
Frank M. Bateson
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| 206 |
Present Activities of the Hungarian Astronomical Association-
Variable Star Section (HAA-VSS) (Abstract)
L. L. Kiss
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| 208 |
Variable Star Observing in Latin America: Past and Future
(Abstract)
Jaime R. García
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| 208 |
AFOEV Report (Abstract)
J. Gunther
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| 208 |
Variables Down South (Abstract)
M. Danie Overbeek
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| 209 |
Report of the Bundesdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für
Veränderliche Sterne (BAV)
Wolfgang Quester
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| 210 |
Ten Years of VSOLJ (Abstract)
Keiichi Saijo, Seiichi Sakuma
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| 211 |
The Brno Regional Network of Observers (B.R.N.O.)--Variable
Star Section of the Czech Astronomical Society—and Its
Activities
Miroslav Zejda
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| 214 |
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Observatory
G. Meynet, M. Grenon
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| 222 |
Project Jelly-Fish: B.R.N.O. Observations of Semiregular Variable
Stars (Abstract)
Petr Hajek
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Astronomical Activities in Lithuania
Arunas Kučinskas
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| 226 |
Photoelectric Photometry At Szeged Observatory (Abstract)
Laszlo L. Kiss, G. Kaszás
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| 226 |
Photoelectric Photometry With a Small Automatic Telescope
(Abstract)
E. Norman Walker, Malcolm S. Gough
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| 226 |
PICA Project—a Short Description (Abstract)
Jan Mánek
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| 227 |
Observations of Some Unique Variable Stars At the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
Elena P. Pavlenko
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| 230 |
V403 Cygni, BF Canis Minoris, and EG Cancri: Recent
Observations of Three Variable Stars Discovered by Huruhata
in Japan, Part 1 (Abstract)
Seiichi Sakuma
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| 230 |
Totally Eclipsed Sun Culminating Over Hungary—Meteorological
Expectations for the 1999 August Event (Abstract)
Gábor Szécsényi-Nagy
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| 231 |
Issues on Finder Charts and Comparison Star Sequences
(Abstract)
Wayne M. Lowder, Janet A. Mattei
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| 232 |
Is the Guide Star Catalog Usable for Making Variable Star
Estimates?
J. Gunther
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| 234 |
CCDV, What Is It?
Ronald E. Royer
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Issues on Data Distribution (Abstract)
Janet A. Mattei
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| 237 |
Issues and Strategies for the Future
Albert V. Holm
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| 245 |
Workshop on Astronomy Education:
Preamble
Michel Grenon, Janet A. Mattei
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| 248 |
Teaching Astronomy: Why and How?
John R. Percy
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| 255 |
The European Association for Astronomy Education (Abstract)
Michael Reichen
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| 255 |
New Practical Astronomy Activities in French Education
(Abstract)
Jean Ripert,
Josée Sert
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| 255 |
The "Astronomy On-Line" Project (Abstract)
Richard M. West
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| 257 |
Contributions of Amateur Astronomy to Education
Mario Motta
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AAVSO Education Project--Hands-On Astrophysics (Abstract)
Janet A. Mattei, John R. Percy
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| 260 |
The Stars for All—Géospace: an Interface Between Astronomy
and Its Popularization (Abstract)
Bernard Pellequer
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| 260 |
Classroom Astronomy Via Remotely-Controlled Telescopes
(Abstract)
Barrett S. Duff
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The High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center--and More!
L. A. Whitlock
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Hands-On Activities for the Classroom (Abstract)
Donna L. Young
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| 267 |
Introducing Variable Stars Without Using Sophisticated
Technology
Michael Kohl
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Astronomy Education in Greece
Margarita Metaxa
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| 274 |
A Light Pollution Laboratory Exercise for Introductory
Astronomy Students
Raymond D. Benge, Jr., Joe Vines
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| 276 |
The Astronomy Laboratory Program At Collin County
Community College, Plano, Texas (Abstract)
Michael L. Broyles
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| 277 |
"StarChild" Applications in a Classroom Setting
Elizabeth Truelove,
Joyce Dejoie
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| 279 |
An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics for Urban High
School Students
Winston Wilkerson
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| 281 |
The Use of 35mm Slides of Variable Stars in Astronomy Education
John R. Percy, Laura Syczak, Janet A. Mattei, John Chumack, Michael Saladyga
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| 284 |
Variable Star Research Projects for Outstanding Senior High
School Students
John R. Percy
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Author Index
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| 290 |
Analysis of AAVSO Visual Measurements of T Tauri Variable
Stars
John R. Percy, Rohan Palaniappan
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| 306 |
Using XMM-Newton and Optical Photometry to Figure Out CVs
Paula Szkody, Lee Homer, Arne A. Henden
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Why Publish? and the Editorial Process
Paula Szkody
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| 315 |
Book Review, "Empire of the stars: Obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes"
Thomas R. Williams
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Abstracts of Papers and Posters Presented at the 95th Spring
Meeting of the AAVSO, Held in Rockford, Illinois, May 4-6, 2006
Various Authors
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Minutes of the 95th Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, Held May
4-6, 2006, Rockford, Illinois; Committee Reports; Treasurer's Report
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