October 2006 Journal 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
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