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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 December / décembre 2004 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, reviewed by David Chapman, Feb., 59, Jun., 136 The Earth Centered Universe” Planetarium and Telescope Control Software The Easth Centered Universe Pro (E‘ U) has been the Canadian choice of nomers for over a decade. This practical tool for astronomy known for its ease of use, reasonable price, rich feature set, and ’ spee i has been upgraded yet again. See our web site for a Astrono! } wCS of features and to take advantage of the free demo version. 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