About I.A.P.P.P. Communications

Our main journal, the I.A.P.P.P. Communications, is published quarterly and is numbered consecutively. The first issue, no. 1, appeared in June 1980.

An annual subscription, which guarantees you four issues each year, costs $25.00 at the present time, although $500.00 buys you a Lifetime Subscription. There is no surcharge for subscriptions mailed to countries outside the U.S.

Membership in I.A.P.P.P. and a subscription to the Communications are the same thing. There is not one without the other.

On other pages of this web site you will find:

1. A list of the current Co-Editors of the Communications.

2. The current publication status of the Communications.

3. Detailed guidelines for authors wishing to publish in the Communications.

4. A listing of previously published issues of the Communications, along with page lengths, dates of publication, and editors of those issues.

5. The procedure for ordering back issues of the Communications.

6. How to down-load copies of individual articles that have appeared in past issues of the Communications.

Articles on a variety of topics are solicited and have appeared so far in previously published issues. Such topics include:

1. Suggested observing programs of current scientific interest to professional astronomers and suitable for photoelectric photometry at smaller observatories.

2. Equipment design and construction, both mechanical and electronic.

3. Observing techniques and data reduction techniques.

4. Descriptions of smaller observatories equipped for photoelectric photometry.

5. Symposium Proceedings - published versions of papers and posters presented at an I.A.P.P.P. Symposium.

6. Reviews of recent meetings, articles appearing in other astronomy journals, and books.

7. Field tests of commercial software and photoelectric equipment.

8. Astronomy education (curricula and student projects) incorporating photoelectric photometry.

9. New (not published elsewhere) observational results of photoelectric photometry data obtained at smaller observatories.

10. I.A.P.P.P. Committee Reports.

11. I.A.P.P.P. Wing Reports.

12. Obituaries for departed I.A.P.P.P. members.

Contributions of the following sort have appeared in past issues of the Communications but are appearing now on this web site instead:

1. Bibliographical references to published papers based on photoelectric photometry and authored or co-authored by amateur astronomers.

2. Announcements of up-coming meetings of interest to photoelectric photometrists.

3. Letters to the Editors.

4. Notices of equipment, books, magazines, etc. for sale or exchange.

5. Donors who have made a contribution to help I.A.P.P.P.

6. Announcement of winners of the Richard D. Lines Special Award in Astronomy, presented at annual meetings of the I.S.E.F.

Since the beginning, papers submitted to the Communications have been edited by the Editors and often re-written or otherwise revised following suggestions made by the Editors. More recently authors have been given the option of requesting that their papers be formally refereed by external reviewers. Such papers, once accepted for publication, are identified by the "reviewed" date following the usual "received" date.


	I.A.P.P.P. About the IAPPP Communications

	Our main journal, the I.A.P.P.P. Communications, is published quarterly and is numbered consecutively. The first issue, no. 1, appeared in June 1980. An annual subscription, which guarantees you four issues each year, costs $25.00 at the present time, although $500.00 buys you a Lifetime Subscription. There is no surcharge for subscriptions mailed to countries outside the U.S. Membership in I.A.P.P.P. and a subscription to the Communications are the same thing. There is not one without the other. On other pages of this web site you will find: 1. A list of the current Co-Editors of the Communications. 2. The current publication status of the Communications. 3. Detailed guidelines for authors wishing to publish in the Communications. 4. A listing of previously published issues of the Communications, along with page lengths, dates of publication, and editors of those issues. 5. The procedure for ordering back issues of the Communications. 6. How to down-load copies of individual articles that have appeared in past issues of the Communications. Articles on a variety of topics are solicited and have appeared so far in previously published issues. Such topics include: 1. Suggested observing programs of current scientific interest to professional astronomers and suitable for photoelectric photometry at smaller observatories. 2. Equipment design and construction, both mechanical and electronic. 3. Observing techniques and data reduction techniques. 4. Descriptions of smaller observatories equipped for photoelectric photometry. 5. Symposium Proceedings - published versions of papers and posters presented at an I.A.P.P.P. Symposium. 6. Reviews of recent meetings, articles appearing in other astronomy journals, and books. 7. Field tests of commercial software and photoelectric equipment. 8. Astronomy education (curricula and student projects) incorporating photoelectric photometry. 9. New (not published elsewhere) observational results of photoelectric photometry data obtained at smaller observatories. 10. I.A.P.P.P. Committee Reports. 11. I.A.P.P.P. Wing Reports. 12. Obituaries for departed I.A.P.P.P. members. Contributions of the following sort have appeared in past issues of the Communications but are appearing now on this web site instead: 1. Bibliographical references to published papers based on photoelectric photometry and authored or co-authored by amateur astronomers. 2. Announcements of up-coming meetings of interest to photoelectric photometrists. 3. Letters to the Editors. 4. Notices of equipment, books, magazines, etc. for sale or exchange. 5. Donors who have made a contribution to help I.A.P.P.P. 6. Announcement of winners of the Richard D. Lines Special Award in Astronomy, presented at annual meetings of the I.S.E.F. Since the beginning, papers submitted to the Communications have been edited by the Editors and often re-written or otherwise revised following suggestions made by the Editors. More recently authors have been given the option of requesting that their papers be formally refereed by external reviewers. Such papers, once accepted for publication, are identified by the "reviewed" date following the usual "received" date. Created 11 July 2005 Modified 21 November 2005 RETURN