Inside This Issue

• The Plaskett Telescope at 90
• Astronomical Art and Artifact: The View From the RASC Archives

Plus, all your favourite regular columns:

• Pen and Pixel
• Second Light
• Deep-Sky Contemplations
• Through My Eyepiece
• Gizmos
• Quick Picks for Observing

And a few extras:

• Astrocryptic
• Society News

Inside This Issue

• Period Changes for the d Scuti Star YZ Boo by Rachel Ward, Paul Delaney, Sarah Sadavoy, Aaron Maxwell, Senthuran Senthilnathan, and Sandy Hsu
• RASC Dark-Sky Program by Robert Dick
• Magnitude Changes in a Variable Star by Alaina Edwards
• The Chris Graham Robotic Telescope by Craig Breckenridge
• The CASTOR “Sputnik 50th Anniversary Satellite-Tracking Bonanza”: Project Overview and Preliminary Analysis by Michael A. Earl

Inside This Issue

• Creating a Relationship with the Sky — The Horizon Effect Project
• “Look WAAAYYYY Up!” — Travels to Mauna Kea
• Quick Picks for Observing
• Visual Impressions of the Planet Mercury
• Alligators, Officers, and Other Hazards

Inside This Issue

• Abstracts from the Planetary Science Research Symposium
• Aboriginal Canadian Sky Lore of the Big Dipper

Inside This Issue

• Roy Bishop's short history of the Observer's Handbook
• A brief, but interesting, write-up about the Dark-Sky Reserve at Mont-Mégantic, plus the 2007 September 19-21 Conference, by Robert Dick, Yvan Dutil, and Dan Taylor
• An admirer's fond farewell to Gertrude Jean Southam by Dan Collier
• Alister Ling describes his first double-star discovery, and
• Rick Stankiewicz writes about spotting Ceres

Inside This Issue

• Orbits of Small Satellites in the Field of a Rectangular Slab
• Did Philips Lansbergen Own the University of Toronto’s De revolutionibus by Nicolaus Copernicus?
• A New Bruderheim Fragment
• Mars: the 2007 Opposition
• The Ultimate Travel Scope for Visual Observing

Inside This Issue

• Editorial by Jay Anderson

• A scientific treatise from Jeremy Tatum,

"Calculation of the Atmospheric Trajectory of a Meteor from Photographic Observations"

Inside This Issue

• The Chassigny Meteorite and Fireball: a Forensic Study
• Playing the Odds: Forecasting for Astronomy
• A Spectacular Solar Eclipse Image
• Raymond Koenig, Founding Member of Kitchener-Waterloo Centre
• Sketching the Sky • Lynne’s Scope

CONTENTS - table des matières

DEPARTMENTS

• Editorial
  by Denis Grey
• News Notes/En manchettes
  • Primordial Organic Matter in the Tagish Lake Meteorite
  • Cosmic Bubble Wins Prize
  • CITA Director Honoured
  • Tau Boo’s Magnetic Attraction
    by Martin Beech and Russ Sampson
• Correspondence
• The Lunar-X Files: A Fleeting Vision near the Crater Werner
  by David M.F. Chapman

CONTENTS - table des matières

DEPARTMENTS

• President's Corner by Scott Young
• Editorial by Jay Anderson
• News Notes/En manchettes
• The Clock of the Long Now ­ A Reflection by Martin Beech
• Reviews/Critiques
  • The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology;
  • Solar System Observer's Guide

FEATURE ARTICLES/ARTICLES DE FOND

• Assessing a MOP to Cleanly Sweep Astronomical Images