In This Issue:

• Editorial   B. Ralph Chou
• Nitrate You Say? Pity...   Dr. J.D. Fernie
• Report of the January 1985 National Council Meeting   Leo Enright
• Peru: Twelve Months Before Halley   Jack Newton
• Finding Comet Halley by Projection Blinking   Ben Mayer
• Now Where Is That Comet?: Building a Simple Model of Comet Halley's Orbit   B. Franklyn Shinn
• Across the R.A.S.C.
• Keeping the R.A.S.C. on Time   Harlan Creighton
• Canadian Astronomy News
• Conference and Special Events Calendar
• Decalogue for Stargazers   John Sanford
• The First Celestial Navigators   Ron Walsh