Inside This Issue

• Roy Bishop's short history of the Observer's Handbook
• A brief, but interesting, write-up about the Dark-Sky Reserve at Mont-Mégantic, plus the 2007 September 19-21 Conference, by Robert Dick, Yvan Dutil, and Dan Taylor
• An admirer's fond farewell to Gertrude Jean Southam by Dan Collier
• Alister Ling describes his first double-star discovery, and
• Rick Stankiewicz writes about spotting Ceres

Inside This Issue

• Orbits of Small Satellites in the Field of a Rectangular Slab
• Did Philips Lansbergen Own the University of Toronto’s De revolutionibus by Nicolaus Copernicus?
• A New Bruderheim Fragment
• Mars: the 2007 Opposition
• The Ultimate Travel Scope for Visual Observing

Inside This Issue

• Editorial by Jay Anderson

• A scientific treatise from Jeremy Tatum,

"Calculation of the Atmospheric Trajectory of a Meteor from Photographic Observations"

Inside This Issue

• The Chassigny Meteorite and Fireball: a Forensic Study
• Playing the Odds: Forecasting for Astronomy
• A Spectacular Solar Eclipse Image
• Raymond Koenig, Founding Member of Kitchener-Waterloo Centre
• Sketching the Sky • Lynne’s Scope

CONTENTS - table des matières

DEPARTMENTS

• Editorial
  by Denis Grey
• News Notes/En manchettes
  • Primordial Organic Matter in the Tagish Lake Meteorite
  • Cosmic Bubble Wins Prize
  • CITA Director Honoured
  • Tau Boo’s Magnetic Attraction
    by Martin Beech and Russ Sampson
• Correspondence
• The Lunar-X Files: A Fleeting Vision near the Crater Werner
  by David M.F. Chapman

CONTENTS - table des matières

DEPARTMENTS

• President's Corner by Scott Young
• Editorial by Jay Anderson
• News Notes/En manchettes
• The Clock of the Long Now ­ A Reflection by Martin Beech
• Reviews/Critiques
  • The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology;
  • Solar System Observer's Guide

FEATURE ARTICLES/ARTICLES DE FOND

• Assessing a MOP to Cleanly Sweep Astronomical Images
  

Inside This Issue

• Using the Medical Image-Processing Package, ImageJ, for Astronomy DSLR Astrophotography, Part 1
• Near Earth Asteroid (2004 XP14) night-flight
• Investigating the Basic Properties of Black Holes Using Newtonian Mechanics

FEATURE ARTICLES/ARTICLES DE FOND

• Determining the Orbital Height of a Low-Earth-Orbiting Artificial Satellite Observed near the Local Zenith by Michael A. Earl
• Astronomy and Astrology by Roy Swanson
• Creating a High-Dynamic-Range Solar Eclipse Composite Image by Alson Wong
• Is Artificial Light at Night Too Much of a Good Thing? by Barry A.J. Clark

RESEARCH PAPERS/ARTICLES DE RECHERCHE

FEATURE ARTICLES/ARTICLES DE FOND

• The Cult Statue of Aphrodite at Palaepaphos: A Meteorite? - by Philip Mozel and Meg Morden
• Johann Bayer and the Relative Magnitudes of α and β Geminorum - by Anthony Barrett
• Pioneering Observatories of the British Isles - by James Edgar
• Seven Easy Steps to Sketching the Lunar Surface in Real Time - by Brian McCullough
• The Haloed Moon/And Leo’s Capture - by Brian Kelly-McArthur

RESEARCH PAPERS/ARTICLES DE RECHERCHE