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April 2010 Issue Contents - table des matières
Feature Articles/Articles de Fond
- Aztec Constellations Preserved by Duran by Robert S. McIvor
- An Initial Retrospective on the International Year of Astronomy 2009 in Canada by James E. Hesser, Cheryl Bartlett,
Julie Bolduc-Duval, Kim Breland, Kim D. Hay, Marc Jobin, Rémi Lacasse, David J. Lane, Damien Lemay,
John Percy, Douglas L. Welch, Andrew Woodsworth
- Lunar Observing by Ken Backer
- Thirty Years of Chasing Eclipses by Jay Anderson
- Middleton Mountain Observatory - A Backyard Project by Bryan Kelso
- Walter A. Feibelman, IYA2009, and the RASC by R.A. Rosenfeld, Roy L. Bishop, Mary Lou Whitehorne & James Edgar
- The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) by Rick Stankiewicz
Columns/Rubriques
- Pen and Pixel: Setting Moon/Cederblad 201/Mercury/Eclipse Bird by Luca Vanzella/Stuart Heggie/Rick Stankiewicz/Jay Anderson
- On Another Wavelength: IR Andromeda by David Garner
- Second Light: A Plethora of Planets by Leslie J. Sage
- Through My Eyepiece: Brasch’s Law by Geoff Gaherty
- A Moment With...Dr. Brigette Hesman by Phil Mozel
- Gizmos: Binos and Bottles by Don van Akker
- Astronomical Art & Artifact: RASC Catalogue of Meteorites - First Supplement by R.A. Rosenfeld
Departments/Départments
- Executive Perspectives by Mary Lou Whitehorne
- News Notes/En manchettes
- Kemble’s Cascade Featured on APOD
- Milky Way Hosts 15 Percent of Solar Systems like Ours
- Planet Hunters Score Success
- Companion Dwarf found in Big Dipper
- Long Range Plan (2010-2020) in Progress
- Be...in New Brunswick by the 2010 GA Committee
- Society News by James Edgar
- Astrocryptic Answers by Curt Nason
- Reviews/Critiques The Lives of Stars