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CONTENTS - Table des matières

FEATURE ARTICLES/ARTICLES DE FOND

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  Determining the Orbital Height of a Low-Earth-Orbiting Artificial Satellite Observed near the Local Zenith by Michael A. Earl
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  Astronomy and Astrology by Roy Swanson
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  Creating a High-Dynamic-Range Solar Eclipse Composite Image by Alson Wong
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  Is Artificial Light at Night Too Much of a Good Thing? by Barry A.J. Clark

RESEARCH PAPERS/ARTICLES DE RECHERCHE

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  Meteor Trains - Terminology and Physical Interpretation by Jiří Borovička

DEPARTMENTS/DÉPARTEMENTS

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  Editorial by Jay Anderson
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  News Notes/En manchettes:
  
  Canadian camera helps mend FUSE
  
  Tagish Lake Meteorite in ROM Collection
  
  3-D map of a million galaxies
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  Correspondence/Correspondance
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  What is this object?

REVIEWS/CRITIQUES

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  A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics
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  Mauna Kea: A Guide to Hawai’i’s Sacred Mountain

ACROSS THE RASC/DU NOUVEAU DANS LES CENTRES

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  Memories Wanted
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  Astrocryptic by Curt Nason

COLUMNS/RUBRIQUES

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  Second Light: Small Kuiper Belt Bodies Seen by X-ray Occultation by Leslie J. Sage
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  Deep-Sky Contemplations by Warren Finlay and Doug Hube
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  Through My Eyepiece: City Mouse and Country Mouse by Geoff Gaherty
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  Gizmos: Sun Screen by Don Van Akker
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  Ramblings of a Variable-Star Addict: Introducing CCD Variable-Star Photometry by Richard Huziak
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  A Moment With...Dr. David Guenther by Philip Mozel
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  Carpe Umbram by Guy Nason
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  Pen and Pixel: NGC 4565 and M74 by Albert Saikaley, Paul Mortfield, and Dietmar Kupke
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  Orbital Oddities: Transit Tandems and Tetrads by Bruce McCurdy
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  Net Astronomy by Paul Langan