The on-line version (in Adobe Acrobat PDF format) of the August 2009 issue of the RASC Journal is now available in full-colour, high-resolution format (5.4 MB), plus a low-resolution version (2.5 MB) for those members on dial-up service.

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August 2009 Issue Contents - table des matières

Feature Articles/Articles de Fond

• Astronomical Observations by Peter Fidler and Others in “Canada” 1790-1820 by Peter Broughton
• Buzzard Coulee - An Amateur Search Effort by Murray D. Paulson
• Running Large-Scale Astronomy Events on the Web by G. Tulloch, P. Trudel, and M. Simmons

Columns/Rubriques

• On Another Wavelength: M27 - A Bipolar Planetary Nebula by David Garner
• Pen and Pixel: Noctilucent Clouds/Veil Nebula/ Elephant Trunk Nebula/Mare Serenitatis
  by David Roles/Stef Cancelli & Paul Mortfield/Pierre Tremblay/Mike Wirths
• Through My Eyepiece: Titan's Shadow by Geoff Gaherty
• Quick Picks for Observing by Kim Hay
• A Moment With...Dr. Peter Martin by Phil Mozel
• Astronomical Art & Artifact: Alfred Russel Wallace and the RASC by R.A. Rosenfeld
• Second Light: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes by Leslie J. Sage
• Orbital Oddities: Delight(s) of Day, Part 2 by Bruce McCurdy
• Gizmos: Springwater Observatory - The Floor by Don Van Akker

Departments/Départements

• Letters to the Editor
• Errata
• News Notes/En manchettes

• • Best-selling Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist Gives Prestigious Public Lecture
  • Saint Mary’s University - First Ph.D. & 2009 Plaskett Medal
  • CASCA Presents First Peter G. Martin Award
  • Celebration of Canadian Astronauts

• Reviews
  • François Arago, un savant généreux. Physique et astronomie au XiX siècle
  • Alien Volcanoes
  • To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers

• Society News by James Edgar
• Astrocryptic Answers by Curt Nason