Volume 12 Number 1 2009 March

CONTENTS

2. Editorial             

Christiansen Papers

4. Recollections of Two and a Half Years With ‘Chris’ Christiansen
Rod Davies

11. Chris Christiansen and the Chris Cross
Wayne Orchiston and Don Mathewson

33. Personal Recollections of W.N. Christiansen and the Early Days of Chinese Radio Astronomy
Wang Shouguan

Other Papers

39. The Dunhuang Chinese Sky:  A Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas
Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Françoise Praderie and Susan Whitfield

61. Some Early Astronomical Sites in the Kashmir Region
Naseer Iqbal, M.N. Vahia, Tabasum Masood and Aijaz Ahmad

66. The Naming of Neptune
Nicholas Kollerstrom

72. V.M. Slipher’s Discovery of the Rotation of Spiral Nebulae and the Controversy with Bertil Lindblad
Alain G. Brémond

Obituary
81. Dr Mary Brück (1925-2008)
Clive Davenhall

Book Reviews

84. Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World. Paramegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies, by Daryn Lehoux
Jefferson Sauter

85. The Astrolabe, by James E. Morrison
Yukio Ôhashi

85. Shrouds of the Night. Masks of the Milky Way and Our Awesome View of Galaxies, by David L. Block and Kenneth Freeman
Colin Montgomery

87. The Greatest Comets in History. Broom Stars and Celestial Scimitars, by David Seargent
Wayne Orchiston

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Volume 12 Number 2 2009 July

CONTENTS

Papers

90. Michell, Laplace and the Origin of the Black Hole Concept.
Colin Montgomery, Wayne Orchiston and Ian Whittingham

97. Time-keeping in the Antipodes: A Critical Comparison of the Sydney and Lyttelton Time Balls
Roger Kinns

108. From Fragments to a Museum Display: Restoration of a Gautier Meridian Circle
Marcus Granato

119. The Role of the Conferences and the Bulletin in the Modification of the Practices of the Carte Du Ciel Project at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Jérôme Lamy

125. Early Infrared Astronomy
James Lequeux

141. Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish
Marshall Cohen

153. Study and Orientation of the Mt. Oche ‘Dragon House’ in Euboea, Greece
E. Theodossiou, V.N. Manimanis, M. Katsiotis and D. Papanikalaou

159. Investigating the Orientation of Eleven Mosques in Greece
George Pantazis and Evangelia Lambrou

167. Comet Halley in 1910, as Viewed from a Maltese Perspective
Adrian Galea

Film and Book Reviews

171. Spiral Galaxy: De Melkweg Ontrafeld. A film by Maarten Roos and Pieter-Rim de Kroon
Richard Strom

171. Inventar der historischen Sonnenuhren in Mecklenburg-Vorpommen, by Jürgen Hamel
Woodruff T. Sullivan, III

171. Cometography. A Catalog of Comet. Volume 4: 1933-1959, by Gary W. Kronk
Wayne Orchiston

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Volume 12 Number 3 2009 November

CONTENTS

Papers

175. Highlighting the History of Frence Radio Astronomy. 4: Early Solar Research at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Marcoussis and Nancay.
Wayne Orchiston, Jean-Louis Steinberg, Mukul Kundu, Jacques Arsac, Émile-Jacques Blum and André Boischot

189. General-Purpose and Dedicated Regimes in the Use of Telescopes.
Jérôme Lamy and Emmanuel Davoust

201. C. Ragoonatha Charry and Variable Star Astronomy.
N. Kameswara Rao, A.Vagiswari, Priya Thakur and Christina Birdie

211. Peter Millman and the Study of Meteor Spectra at Harvard University.
Steven Tors and Wayne Orchiston

224. Canadian Meteor Science: The First Phase, 1933 - 1990
Richard A. Jarrell

235. An Astronomical Investigation of the Seventeen Hundred Year Old Nekresi Fire Temple in Eastern Georgia.
Irakli Simonia, Clive Ruggles and Nodar Bakhtadze

240. How the First Dwarf Planet Became the Asteroid Ceres.
Clifford J. Cunningham, Brian G. Marsden and Wayne Orchiston

IAU Reports

249. The IAU Historic Radio Astronomy Working Group. 3: Progress Report (2006-2009).
Ken Kellermann, Wayne Orchiston, Rod Davies, James Lequeux, Norio Kaifu, Yuri Ilyasov,
Govind Swarup, Hugo Van Woerden, Jasper Wall, and Richard Wielebinski

254. The IAU Transits of Venus Working Group. Triennial Report (2006-2009).
Hilmar Duerbeck

Book Reviews

255.Nebel und Sternhaufen - Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung, Beobachtung und Katalogisierung, by Wolfgang Steinicke
Hilmar Duerbeck

255. Eastern Astrolabes, Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum Volume II, by David Pingree
Yukio Ôhashi

256.Via Nubila - am Grunde des Himmels. Johann Georg Hagen und die Kosmischen Wolken, by Arndt Latußeck
Hilmar Duerbeck

Index

257.