JAAVSO Volume 46 Number 2, 2018 is published

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The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Volume 46, Number 2, 2018

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