The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 2004: Vol 98 Index

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Mozel, Philip, AMoment With... Dr. Alison Sills, Dec., ‘ Orbital Oddities: Life List, Dec., 246
A Moment With... Dr. Richard Crowe, Apr., 103 Orbital Oddities: March of Planets, Feb., 54
A Moment With... Dr. Michael Dixon, Oct., 207 Orbital Oddities: Splendid Sight, Apr., 100
A Moment With... Dr. Wendy Freedman, Jun., 135 Orbital Oddities: Transit Turns, Aug., 167
A Moment With... Dr. Philip Stooke, Aug., 172 Orbital Oddities: Transit Twists, Jun., 132
Parker, L.C, R.L. Hawkes and PS. Gural, Short Exposure Astronomical Reflections: Bohemian Astronomy, Feb., 30
Techniques for Occultation Detection, Jun., 120 Reflections: Christian Huygens, Apr., 74
Patrick, Tony, Crusing the Southern Skies, Apr., 105 Reflections: In Search of Huygens, Oct., 188
Sage, Leslie J., Second Light: A Crucial Rung on the Distance Reflections: My Voyage through the Solar System, Jun.,
Ladder of the Universe, Apr., 76 115
Second Light: ET: Don't Phone, Send a Book, Oct., 190 Reflections: Solon Irving Bailey, Dec., 229
Second Light: Locations for the Next Generation of Big Reflections: The Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar (1974), Aug.,
Telescopes, Dec., 231 154
Second Light: Not Much Water on the Moon, Feb., 28 Second Light: A Crucial Rung on the Distance Ladder of
Second Light: Resolving the Gamma-ray Background into the Universe, Apr.,76
Discrete Sources, Jun., 117 Second Light: ET: Don't Phone, Send a Book, Oct., 190
Second Light: Unperturbed Procyon, Aug., 156 Second Light: Locations for the Next Generation of Big
Schmude, Richard W, Jr, Doug West, and Charles Calia, Photometric Telescopes, Dec., 231
and Polarimetric Measurements of the Saturn System in Second Light: Not Much Water on the Moon, Feb., 28
2003-04, Dec., 233 Second Light: Resolving the Gamma-ray Background into
Wettlaufer, Boyd and Anthony Whyte, Discovery of the Belly Discrete Sources, Jun., 117
Aiver Meteorite: New Information, Dec., 238 Second Light: Unperturbed Procyon, Aug., 156
Zimmerman, Brett, The Uranic Muse: Astronomy and Major
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Authors, Feb., 48 Correspondence
DEPARTMENTS Dec., 219
Across The RASC Education Notes
Adventures in Proofreading, Apr., 93 Entropy: A Brief Review from Steam Engines to Black Holes,
A New Image for the RASC, Feb., 45 Aug., 162
Astrocryptic, Feb., 29, Apr. 67, Jun., 140, Aug., 176, Oct.,
187, Dec., 255 Editorial
Canada on Mars, Feb., 57
Coincidental Supernovae Spiral Galaxy NGC 772 Feb., 4, Apr., 64, Jun., 112, Aug., 144, Oct., 178, Dec., 218
Crusing the Southern Skies, Apr., 105
Cypress Hills Dark-Sky Preserve - Canada’s Newest DSP, Feature Articles
The, Dec., 241
Gemini: Two Telescopes, One Universe, Dec., 240 A (Not So) Brief History of the Transits of Venus, Feb., 6
Michael Smith Award, The, Feb., 42 In Search of the English Rose, Robert Hooke's Lost Constellation,
RASC Awards: 2004 and 2005, Oct., 200 Oct., 183
Skies Over Canada: Observing Committee News, The, Jun., Levers et couchers, Feb., 21
130, Aug., 174, Oct., 209, Dec., 250 Oblitus Astrologia: Astronomical Progress in Mediaeval Europe,
Society News / Nouvelle de la société, Apr., 92, Jun., 129, Dec., 227
Oct., 198 On Reflectance Laws and the Theory of Planetary Photometry,
Aug., 149
Columns RASC Membership Survey - What You Said, Dec., 225
Salue Umbistineum Geminatum Martia Proles, Apr., 95
A Moment With... Dr. Alison Sills, Dec., 249 Sky Behind Gretzky, The, Aug., 147
A Moment With... Dr. Michael Dixon, Oct., 207 Spherical Trigonometry in Astronomy, Apr., 68
A Moment With... Dr. Philip Stooke, Aug., 172 Uranic Muse: Astronomy and Major Nineteenth-Century U.S.
A Moment With... Dr. Richard Crowe, Apr. 103 Authors, The, Feb., 48
A Moment With... Dr. Wendy Freedman, Jun., 135
Orbital Oddities: Fading Foursome, Oct., 202
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From the Past President’s Corner
Feb., 33, Apr., 104, Jun., 119, Aug., 157, Oct., 191, Dec., 232 Feb., 2, Apr., 62, Jun., 110, Aug.,
Index to Volume 98, 2004 Research Papers (see TITLES)
Dec. Review of Publications
News Notes First Asteroid: Ceres 1801-2001. Historical Studies in Asteroid
Research, Volume 1, by CliffordJ .C unningham, reviewed
Feb., 4, Apr. 65, Jun., 113, Aug., 145, Oct., 180, Dec., 22 by Richard A. Jarrell, Oct., 214
Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of
Obituaries Variation, by Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter, reviewed by
Barry Matthews, Apr., 137
Henry Lee (1920 - 2004), Apr., 108, Janet Akyiiz Mattei (1943 - Search for Life in the Universe, The, by Donald Goldsmith and
2004), Oct., 215, William Harrison Thurlow (1942 - 2004), Tobias Owen, reviewed by Fred Smith, Jun., 137
Jun., 139 Space, the Final Frontier, by Giancarlo Genta and Michael Rycroft,
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