The 2006 October Journal is now online. Go to http://www.rasc.ca/currentjrasc/. The username and password are the same as before; see the broadcast email to members.

CONTENTS - Table des matières

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

• Meteor Trains - Terminology and Physical Interpretation by Jiří Borovička

DEPARTMENTS/DÉPARTEMENTS

• Editorial by Jay Anderson
• News Notes/En manchettes:
  Canadian camera helps mend FUSE
  Tagish Lake Meteorite in ROM Collection
  3-D map of a million galaxies
• Correspondence/Correspondance
• What is this object?

REVIEWS/CRITIQUES

• A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics
• Mauna Kea: A Guide to Hawai’i’s Sacred Mountain

ACROSS THE RASC/DU NOUVEAU DANS LES CENTRES

• Memories Wanted
• Astrocryptic by Curt Nason

COLUMNS/RUBRIQUES

• Second Light: Small Kuiper Belt Bodies Seen by X-ray Occultation by Leslie J. Sage
• Deep-Sky Contemplations by Warren Finlay and Doug Hube
• Through My Eyepiece: City Mouse and Country Mouse by Geoff Gaherty
• Gizmos: Sun Screen by Don Van Akker
• Ramblings of a Variable-Star Addict: Introducing CCD Variable-Star Photometry by Richard Huziak
• A Moment With...Dr. David Guenther by Philip Mozel
• Carpe Umbram by Guy Nason
• Pen and Pixel: NGC 4565 and M74 by Albert Saikaley, Paul Mortfield, and Dietmar Kupke
• Orbital Oddities: Transit Tandems and Tetrads by Bruce McCurdy
• Net Astronomy by Paul Langan