Vol. 13 No. 1 |
Mar 2010 |
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Papers |
The Radiophysics Field Station at Penrith, New South Wales, and the World's First Solar Radiospectrograph |
Ronald Steward, Harry Wendt, Wayne Orchiston, & Bruce Slee | 2 |
The Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, Texas | A. Richard Thompson | 17 |
Letter to the Editor. Re: Montgomery et al.’s paper on “Michell, Laplace and the Origin of the Black Hole Concept” | P. Brosche | 28 |
Highlighting the History of French Radio Astronomy. 5: The Nançay Large Radio Telescope | James Lequeux, Jean-Louis Steinberg, & Wayne Orchiston | 29 |
Wilhelm Tempel and his 10.8-cm Steinheil Telescope | Simone Bianchi, Antonella Gasperini, Daniele Galli, Francesco Palla, Paolo Brenni, & Anna Giatti | 43 |
James Dunlop’s Historical Catalogue of Southern Nebulae and Clusters | Glen Cozens, Andrew Walsh, & Wayne Orchiston | 59 |
The Astronomical Significance of Megalithic Stone Alignments at Vibhuthihalli in Northern Karnataka | N. Kameswara Rao & Priya Thakur | 74 |
Book Reviews (all) |
The Collected Correspondence of Baron Franz Xaver von Zach, by Clifford J. Cunningham | Hilmar W. Duerbeck | 83 |
British University Observatories 1772-1939, by Roger Hutchins | David W. Hughes | 83 |
Astronomical Spectrographs and their History, by John Hearnshaw | David DeVorkin | 84 |
Under the Radar. The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott, ed. by W.M. Goss & Richard X. McGee | Wayne Orchiston | 85 |
Geschichte der Geodäsie in Deutschland, by Wolfgang Torge | Hilmar W. Duerbeck | 86 |
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Vol. 13 No. 2 |
Jul 2010 |
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Contents | 87 |
The First Century of Astronomical Spectroscopy |
Introduction | Joseph S. Tenn | 88 |
Auguste Comte’s Blunder: An Account of the First Century of Stellar Spectroscopy and How it Took One Hundred Years to Prove that Comte was Wrong! | John Hearnshaw | 90 |
Spectroscopy—So What? | Matthew Stanley | 105 |
From Dilettante to Serious Amateur: William Huggins’ Move into the Inner Circle | Barbara J. Becker | 112 |
The Origin and Diffusion of the H and K Notation | Jay M. Pasachoff & Terry-Ann Suer | 120 |
The 1910 Solar Conference and Cooperation in Stellar Spectroscopy | Richard A. Jarrell | 127 |
Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: C.H. Payne H.N. Russell and Standards of Evidence in Early Quantitative Spectroscopy | David H. Devorkin | 139 |
Charlotte Moore Sitterly | Vera C. Rubin | 145 |
Other Papers |
St. Helena, Edmond Halley, the Discovery of Stellar Proper Motion, and the Mystery of Aldebaran | John C. Brandt | 149 |
The First Astronomical Hypothesis Based on Cinematographical Observations: Costa Lobo’s 1912 Evidence for Polar Flattening of the Moon | Vitor Bonifácio, Isabel Malaquias, & João Fernandes, | 159 |
Book Reviews (all) |
Blick zurück ins Universum. Die Geschichte der österreichichen Astronomie in Biographien, by Daniela Angetter, & Nora Pärr | Hilmar W. Duerbeck | 169 |
Jérôme Lalande (1732-1807). Une Trajectoire Scientifique, ed. by Guy Boistel, Jérôme Lamy, & Colette Le Lay | James Lequeux | 169 |
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Correction to The Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, Texas | A. Richard Thompson | 170 |
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Vol. 13 No. 3 |
Nov 2010 |
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Contents | 171 |
Papers |
Ronald N. Bracewell: An Appreciation |
A. Richard Thompson, & Robert H. Frater | 172 |
James Ferguson: A Commemoration |
Clive Davenhall | 179 |
Elisabeth von Matt (1762 - 1814), An Enlightened Practitioner of Astronomy in Vienna | Peter Brosche & Klaralinda Ma-Kircher | 187 |
Time Balls, Time Guns and Glasgow's Quest for a Reliable Local Time Service | Roger Kinns | 194 |
Charles Nordmann and Multicolour Stellar Photometry | James Lequeux | 207 |
An Aboriginal Australian Record of the Great Eruption of Eta Carinae | Duane W. Hamacher, & David J. Frew | 220 |
The Changing Role of the ‘Catts Telescope’: The Life and Times of a Nineteenth Century 20-inch Grubb Reflector | Wayne Orchiston | 235 |
Book Reviews (all) |
Die Geschichte der Universitätssternwarte Wien. Dargestellt anhand ihrer historischen Instrumente und eines Typoskripts von Johann Steinmayr, by Jürgen Hamel, Isolde Müller, & Thomas Posch | Hilmar W. Duerbeck | 255 |
Sterne über Hamburg. Die Geschichte der Astronomie in Hamburg, by J. Schramm | Hilmar W. Duerbeck | 255 |
Cultural Heritage of Astronomical Observatories, by G. Wolfschmidt | Hilmar W. Duerbeck | 240 |
Cosmic Noise. A History of Early Radio Astronomy, by Woodruff T. Sullivan, III | Wayne Orchiston | 256 |
Index to Volume 13 | 258 |
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