JAAVSO Volume 45 Number 1 2017 is published

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The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Volume 45, Number 1, 2017

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