The Journal of the British Astronomical Association

Index to Volume 122 (2012)

Prepared by R. A. Marriott

The Subject Index references items under general headings; where a contribution covers two or more clearly defined subjects, each is separately referenced, but otherwise sub-headings within the same topic are not included. Publication reviews are indexed as such, but their subjects are not further cross-indexed. The Author Index details all named contributions, including talks at Ordinary Meetings, but not questions from the floor.

Abbreviations: ill.= illustration; news= in 'Notes and News' or 'BAA Update'; ltr.= letter to the Editor; rvw.= publication review; mtg.= meeting contribution

Pagination: (1) 1-64, (2) 65-132, (3) 133-192, (4) 193-252, (5) 253-320, (6) 321-380

Subject index
Announcements and BAA Notices
- BAA Council, 2010-2011 (ill.), 119
- BAA Council, 2011-2012 (ill.), 313
- From the President (news), 5, 67, 135, 195, 256, 324
- Horace Dall Medal and Gift: Cor Berrevoets, 124
- Lydia Brown Award: Hazel McGee, 124
- New Honorary members, 200
- New members, 93, 161
- Report of the Council for the Session 2011 August 1 to 2012 July 31, 292
- The BAA Winchester Weekend (news, ills.), 375
- Walter Goodacre Award: R. J. Livesey (mtg.), 324
Asteroids
- A revised rotation period for asteroid (2903) Zhuhai, 110
- Close pass of Earth by asteroid 2012 BX34 (news), 242
- Is it worth losing sleep over?, 372
Aurora Section
- Notes and News, 68, 142, 201, 257, 332
Aurorae
- Aurora at Tarbat Ness (news), 121
- Auroral activity in 2012 May (news), 201
- Auroral activity reliably observed from Birmingham southwards in England, 1976-2010, 220
Biography and Obituaries
- 100-up for Dame Kathleen! (news), 334
- Brian George William Manning, 1926-2011 (obit.), 118
- Centenaries for 2013, 366
- Charles Lewis Brook: third Director of the BAA Variable Star Section, 17
- Ernest Elliott Markwick: Variable stars and military campaigns, 335
- Information wanted on former BAA Council members (ltr.), 315
- Weidong Li, 1969-2011 (news), 77
- William Maximilian Lindley: fifth Director of the BAA Variable Star Section, 151
Campaign for Dark Skies
- A systematic approach to recording night-sky quality (news), 147
- Good Lighting Award for Leicester temple (news), 71
- Light pollution and planning controls: a CfDS conference at Leicester DMU (news), 179
- Light pollution: penetrating the veil, 204, 315
Comets
- A spectacular Christmas comet in southern skies (news), 3
- A ‘wetted layer’ model for cometary nuclei (news), 144
- Comet 2011 L4 (PanSTARRS): a visitor with a bright future? (news), 203
- Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd: the long view (news), 57
- Comet Lovejoy C/2011 W3 (ills.), 1, 3
- Comet prospects for 2013 (news), 327
- Farewell to film: Imaging comets and the Sun the old way, 97
- Is it worth losing sleep over?, 372
- Supporting Rosetta: A pro-am workshop held at University College London (news), 138
Cosmology
- The current view on how galaxies form (mtg.), 371
Deep sky
- Coma Berenices (ltrs.), 186, 244
- NGC 253: Caroline’s galaxy, 309
- NGC 457: an Owl in Cassiopeia, 368
- NGC 4565: a stunning galaxy in Coma Berenices, 120
- NGC 6826: the Blinking Planetary, 178
- NGC 7662: a Snowball in the autumn sky, 242
- PV Cephei and Gyulbudaghian’s nebula, 167
- M44 & M67: Two open clusters in Cancer, 59
Double stars
- Lunar occultations of double stars: a plea for observations (news), 177
Eclipses
- 2012 November 13: the Queensland eclipse (news), 325
- Asymmetry in solar eclipses (ltr.), 244
- Asymmetry in lunar eclipses, 104
- Isolated total lunar eclipses, 227, 314, 367
- The annular solar eclipse of 2012 May 20 (news), 243
- The lunar eclipse of 2011 December 10 (news), 60
- Total solar eclipse, 1927 (mtg.), 371
- Uncertainty in the classification of eclipses (ltr.), 367
Historical Section
- Meeting of the Section, Birmingham, 2012 May 5, 310
History
- Centenaries for 2013, 366
- Charles Lewis Brook: third Director of the BAA Variable Star Section, 17
- Curiosity, Gale crater and BAA observer Walter F. Gale (news), 202
- Ernest Elliott Markwick: Variable stars and military campaigns, 335
- Gems from The Astronomical Register (ltr.), 125
- Learning from Galileo’s errors, 169
- The extraordinary flickering behaviour of U Geminorum, 279
- William Maximilian Lindley: fifth Director of the BAA Variable Star Section, 151
Instruments and observatories
- A comparison of two simple magnetometers, 222, 315
- Atmospheric dispersion and its effect on high-resolution imaging, 229
- Building a model astrolabe, 33
- Centenary of the Norman Lockyer Observatory (news), 198
- Choosing and using binoculars for the travelling astronomer, 11
- Farewell to film: Imaging comets and the Sun the old way, 97
- Handheld astrophotography (ltr.), 125
- Modifying DSLR cameras for astrophotography, 162, 244
- Secondhand large, manual telephoto lenses (ltr.), 127
- Stonyhurst Disks (ltr.), 186
- The dispersion corrector revisited (ltr.), 314
- The hypochromatic refractor revisited (ltr.), 14
- The medieval astrolabe (ltr.), 125
Jupiter
- The grazing occultation of Jupiter on 2012 July 15, 31
- Venus and Jupiter in daylight with an 8-20mm monocular (ltr.), 315
Mars
- A possible relationship between the recession velocity of the martian polar caps and solar activity, 349
- Curiosity, Gale crater and BAA observer Walter F. Gale (news), 202
- Curiosity at Gale crater (news), 255
- Mars 2011-’12: first interim report (news), 75
- The opposition of Mars, 2007: Part I, 207
- The opposition of Mars, 2007: Part II, 271
Meetings and Courses
- Annual General Meeting, 2011 October 26, 122
- Communicating astronomy (news), 11
- European Planetary Science Congress 2012 (ltr.), 244
- Ordinary Meetings, 123, 183, 245, 246, 371
- Out-of-London Meeting, Norwich, 2011 May 7, 53
- Special General Meeting, 2012 March 28, 246
Mercury
- Mercury projected on the solar corona, 94
- The ‘libration zones’ of Mercury: the last stand, 359
Meteors
- Brilliant Earth-grazing fireball of 2012 September 21, 321, 323
- Fireballs over Iceland, 165
- Observers battle cloud and moonlight to view the 2011 Geminids (news), 76
- Quadrantids put on a good show in 2012 January (news), 136
- Simultaneous still, video and radio detection of a bright Leonid fireball in 2011, 267
Moon
- A ‘Honeycombed Moon’: O’Neill’s Bridge and other lunar arches and tunnels, 42
- Unroofing the lunar chasms (ltrs.), 185, 186
- What’s in a name? ‘Webb’s Furrow’ and a minor correction to Our Moon by H. P. Wilkins, 173
Novae and supernovae
- 150-up for Tom Boles (news), 334
- A bright supernova in M95 (news), 148
- Observing through the light, 54
- Remote observations of supernova 2011fe (news), 121
- Supernova 2011ht in UGC 5460 (news), 74
Observation
- Always expect the unexpected! (news), 369
- Atmospheric dispersion and its effect on high-resolution imaging, 229
- Learning from Galileo’s errors, 169
Occultations
- Lunar occultations of double stars: a plea for observations (news), 177
- The grazing occultation of Jupiter on 2012 July 15, 31
Radio Astronomy Group
- Meeting of the Group, Northampton, 2011 November 12, 113
- The geomagnetic storm of 2012 July 14-16 (news), 260
- The Radio Astronomy Group in 2011 (news), 145
Reviews
- Exoplanets: Finding, exploring, and understanding alien worlds, Chris Kitchin, 112
- Exploring Mars: Chronicles from a decade of discovery, Scott Hubbard, 112
- Gravity’s Engines: The other side of black holes, Caleb Scharf, 262
- How to build a habitable planet, Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Brooker, 370
- How to observe the Sun safely, Lee Macdonald, 370
- Patrick Moore’s Yearbook of Astronomy, Patrick Moore & John Mason, 15
- Stargazers’ Almanac 2012, Bob Mizon, 262
- The casual sky observer’s guide, Rony de Laet, 16
- The chemical cosmos: a guided tour, Steve Miller, 16
- The construction of the heavens: William Herschel’s cosmology, Michael Hoskin, 182
- The star book: how to understand astronomy, Peter Grego, 262
- Transit of Venus: 1631 to the present, Nick Lomb, 15
- Venus seen on the Sun, tr. Wilbur Applebaum, 182
Saturn
- Saturn (ill.), 133
- The 2011/2012 apparition of Saturn: interim report (news), 330
- Visual observation of Saturn, 149
Sky notes, 60, 128, 188, 247, 316, 371, 376
Solar Section
- Notes and News, 7, 69, 138, 198, 258, 325
Space exploration
- Curiosity at Gale crater (news), 255
- Supporting Rosetta: A pro-am workshop held at University College London (news), 138
Sun
- Farewell to film: Imaging comets and the Sun the old way, 97
- Mercury projected on the solar corona, 94
- Observing the Sun, 78
- Stonyhurst Disks (ltr.), 186
- The geomagnetic storm of 2012 July 14-16 (news), 260
- Venus transits the Sun, 2012 June 5-6 (news), 195
Supernovae
- 150-up for Tom Boles (news), 334
- A bright supernova in M95 (news), 148
- Remote observations of supernova 2011fe (news), 121
- Supernova 2011ht in UGC 5460 (news), 74
Uranus
- Conjunction of Uranus with 44 Piscium, 2012 September 22/23 (news), 369
Variable Star Section
- Erratum: Report of the Council, 2011-2012 (news), 330
- The BAA VSS online database (news), 180
Variable stars
- Correction: 2011 George Alcock Memorial Lecture (ltr.), 186
- Eclipse comparisons of the symbiotic nova V1413 Aql from visual photometry, 356
- Observing through the light, 54
- Observing variable stars for fun and physics, 81
- PV Cephei and Gyulbudaghian’s nebula, 167
- Superhumps and grazing eclipses in the dwarf nova BG Arietis, 284
- Superhumps and post-outburst rebrightening episodes in the AM CVn star SFSS J012940.05+384210.4, 49
- The 2011 February superoutburst of the dwarf nova SDSS J112003.40+663632.4, 233
- The extraordinary flickering behaviour of U Geminorum, 279
- The orbital and superhump periods of the SU UMa-type dwarf nova V1212 Tauri, 361
- The orbital period of the eclipsing dwarf nova SDSS J081610.84+453010.2, 237
Venus
- Venus and Jupiter in daylight with an 8-20mm monocular (ltr.), 315
- Venus in 2011-’12: second interim report (news), 5
- Venus in 2011-’12: third interim report (news), 72
- Venus in 2011-’12: fourth interim report (news), 141
- Venus in 2011-’12: fifth interim report (news), 197
- Venus transits the Sun, 2012 June 5-6 (news), 195

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