Table of Contents

THE Kth REUNION

Yale University, March 7 - 8, 1997

INSIDE THE BELTWAY: AN ASTROPHYSICIST'S VIEW OF FIVE YEARS IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT              

                         Hugh M. Van Horn                                                3

THE 488,006,860 SOURCES IN THE USNO-A1.0 CATALOG                    

                       David G. Monet WARNER & SWASET OBSERVATORY: BIRTHPLACE OF MIRA                    

                     Wm. Bruce Weaver                                                                     13

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY LUNAR TELESCOPE                    

                     P. Chen                                                                      17

THE SANTA CLARA TELESCOPE FIASCO                    

                     John W. Briggs                                                                            25

THE ECLIPSE OF 1780: A REVISIT                    

                     E. Myles Standish Jr.                                                                   33

STAR ATLAS OF DZEWUEYHUAN                    

                     John Truenliang Lee                                                                    39

SUSPECTED VIARIABLES AMONG AL SUFI STARS                    

                     Dorrit Hoffleit                                                                            45

REMINISCENCES                    

                     Dorrit Hoffleit                                                                             55

DORRIT HOFFLEIT, VARIABLE STARS AND THE MARIA
MITCHELL OBSERVATORY                                 

                     Janet. A. Mattei & Michael Saladyga                                           59

LONG TERM OBSERVATIONS OF RR LYRAE STARS                    

                     Horace A. Smith                                                                           65

WEIRD SUPERNOVAE, SUPERLUMINOUS, SUPERFAST AND
SUPERFAINT EXAMPLES       

                   Bradley E. Schaefer & Terrence M. Girard                                     69

ASTROMETRY OF VARIABLE STARS                    

                     C. E. Lopez, T. M. Girard, C. Predom, R.                                                                                 De Marrino, D. Kocyla & E. Wehterbee                                     71

PAVING THE ROYAL ROAD OF ECLIPSES: MODELING
METHOD IMPROVEMENTS                     

                    E. F. Milone, J. Kallrath, D. Terrell &                                                                          A. T. Young                                                                                    75

CEPHEIDS: MASSES AND ISOCHRONES                    

                     Nancy R. Evans                                                                           81

TAMING THE BLAZHKO EFFECT                    

                     Emilia Pisani Belserene                                                               85

MIRAS                     

                    L. A. Willson                                                                                89

THE BRENHAM, KIOWA COUNTY, KANSAS METEORITE                     

                    Howard Plotkin                                                                             93

A PRIMER ON METEORITIC WORK FOR THE ASTRONOMER                     

                    Wayue Osborn                                                                               97

MG2: A NEW MOLECULE IN METEOR SPECTRA                     

                    William P. Bidelman                                                                    103

THE SHAPLEY VISTING LECTURESHIPS PROGRAM - 1997                     

                    A. G. Davis Philip                                                                        107

THE LOCATION OF THE NORMAL GIANTS FROM HIPPARCOS DATA                     

                    A. R. Upgren, J. T. Lee & P. D. Hemenway                                113

HANDS-ON HISTORY FOR ASTRONOMY STUDENTS                     

                    Barbara L. Welther                                                                      117

SMALL OBSERVATORIES AND ASTRONOMICAL
DEVELOPMENT                     

                    John R. Percy                                                                              121

ASTROMETRY: THE FOUNDATION OF ASTRONOMY
AND ASTROPHYSICS                     

                    Heinrich Eichhorn                                                                       125

A RE-REDUCTION OF THE SOUTHERN POLAR ZONE OF THE
YALE PHOTOGRAPHIC STAR CATALOG                     

                    Jane Morrison & Heinrich Eichhorn                                             131

TEST OF A NEW IMAGE CENTERING ALGORITHM                     

                    J. Stock, A. R. Upgren & J. T. Lee                                                 137

Dorrit Hoffliet: BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                    139