Historical and Scientific AAVSO Journal Articles by Dorrit Hoffleit
The following articles were published by Dorrit Hoffleit in the Journal of the AAVSO from 1972 to 2002. The volume issue containing the article is indicated in the leftmost column. To order any of the JAAVSO issues containing these articles, please go to this section of our online store.
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| Volume Issue | Year | Page Range | Title |
| 1.1 | 1972 | 3-8 | E. C. Pickering in the History of Variable Star Astronomy |
| 2.1 | 1973 | 1-6 | Harlow Shapley in Variable Comments |
| 6.2 | 1978 | 73-75 | A Call for Photoelectric Observations of V389 Cygni |
| 6.2 | 1978 | 77-77 | A Reply From Dorrit |
| 8.2 | 1979 | 48-51 | Book Review--"The End of an Era" (Gaposchkin: Stars and Clusters) |
| 8.2 | 1979 | 52-54 | What Happened to 51 Piscium? |
| 9.1 | 1980 | 30-31 | Note on Albert's Sky Survey for Delta Scuti Variable Stars |
| 9.1 | 1980 | 38-39 | Stars With Spectra Resembling Delta Delphini |
| 10.2 | 1981 | 57-59 | More Variable Stars Among Bright Visual Binaries |
| 10.2 | 1981 | 103-104 | Four Helens |
| 11.1 | 1982 | 25-26 | Does S1910 Vary? |
| 11.1 | 1982 | 41-41 | Common and Elite Variables, Then and Now |
| 12.1 | 1983 | 8-9 | Matthew Fontaine Maury's Missing Star |
| 13.1 | 1984 | 15-20 | The Christmas Star, Novae, and Pulsars |
| 13.2 | 1984 | 67-77 | Elias and Francis Loomis on Variable Stars, 1866-1869 |
| 14.2 | 1985 | 64-66 | Was Harlow Shapley Right About V Cephei? |
| 15.2 | 1986 | 77-106 | A History of Variable Star Astronomy to 1900 and Slightly Beyond |
| 15.2 | 1986 | 107-111 | Preludes to the Founding of the AAVSO |
| 16.1 | 1987 | 29-33 | The Earliest Infrared Light Curves |
| 16.2 | 1987 | 65-70 | History of Variable Star Nomenclature |
| 20.1 | 1991 | 32-34 | V3821 Sgr and a Nearby Carbon Star |
| 20.2 | 1991 | 239-240 | MQ Serpentis, A Mystery |
| 21.1 | 1992 | 55-59 | Wanted: Astrometric and Photoelectric Observations of Gamma Virginis and Zeta Herculis |
| 21.2 | 1992 | 144-146 | Clinton Banker Ford, 1913-1992 |
| 21.2 | 1992 | 151-156 | The Selector of Highlights: A Brief Biographical Sketch of Harlow Shapley |
| 24.1 | 1996 | 43-49 | Self-Styled Curmudgeon, W. J. Luyten, 1899-1994 |
| 24.2 | 1996 | 105-116 | A Catalogue of Correlations between Eclipsing and Other Categories of Double Stars |
| 25.2 | 1997 | 115-136 | History of the Discovery of Mira Stars |
| 26.2 | 1998 | 132-133 | Un-Named Fleming Variables |
| 26.2 | 1998 | 208-208 | Errata: Hoffleit, Vol. 25, p. 115 |
| 27.2 | 1999 | 131-140 | Hipparcos versus GCVS Amplitudes of Non-Mira M-Type Giants |
| 28.1 | 2000 | 40-46 | In Memory of Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas August 21, 1905-August 6, 1997 |
| 28.1 | 2000 | 47-66 | Astronomy in Australia--A Brief Historical Survey |
| 28.2 | 2000 | 127-148 | The Milton Bureau Revisited |
| 30.1 | 2001 | 62-93 | The Maria Mitchell Observatory--For Astronomical Research and Public Enlightenment |
| 30.2 | 2002 | 139-144 | New Hipparcos Variables in The Bright Star Catalogue |