February 2012 Issue Contents / table des matières

Feature Articles / Articles de fond

• An Eclipse of Our Own by Jay Anderson
• An Early American Zodiac by Robert S. McIvor
• Science Marches Quietly Forward at Trent University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy by John Crossen

Columns / Rubriques

• On Another Wavelength: The Galaxies of Pegasus by David Garner
• Cosmic Contemplations: The Mod Dob Job and the Rat Dob by Jim Chung
• Pen and Pixel: M22 / M106 / Valentine Nebula / NGC 7331 by Dalton Wilson / Stef Cancelli and Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn / Stuart Heggie / Stephen McIntyre
• Astronomical Art and Artifact: A Transit of Venus Dream Unfulfilled: Mungo Turnbull and Sir John A. Macdonald by R.A. Rosenfeld
• Imager’s Corner: Noise Reduction by Blair MacDonald
• Second Light: A Type Ia Supernova in M101 Fueled by a Main-Sequence Star by Leslie J. Sage
• Through My Eyepiece: Observing Mars by Geoff Gaherty

Departments / Départements

• President’s Corner by Mary Lou Whitehorne
• News Notes / En Manchette
  • Honorary astrobiology chair created, evolutionary biologist mourned
  • Voyager travelling through new region at Solar System edge
  • Curiosity heading to Mars, veins of mineral found, Canada participates
  • First planet in habitable zone confirmed
  • Mercury mission gets one more year of science
  • Oldest planetarium in Canada closes and awaits new home
• Society Award Winners at the 2011 General Assembly
• New Honorary Members of the Society
• Edmonton Welcomes You! The 2012 GA.
• Reviews / Critiques
  • Everyone’s Universe, A Guide to Accessible Astronomy Places
• Society News by James Edgar
• 2012 Nomination Call by Colin Haig
• Astrocryptic by Curt Nason
• It’s Not All Sirius—Cartoon by Ted Dunphy