From the Director – Stan Walker
VSS Symposium 4 – David O’Driscoll
A letter from the director of the AAVSO
Atmospheric Extinction – Mark Blackford
Visual Cepheid targets for beginners – Stan Walker
A call for closer monitoring of BV Cen – Alan Plummer
V854 Cen and Two Declines in 2015 – Peter Williams
Astronomy projects for students – Carl Knight
Distinction for student Cepheid project – Carl Knight
It’s about time – Phil Evans
A user’s guide to time, NTP servers and software (v1.2) – Blair Lade
EB and EW Eclipsing Binaries Project – Tom Richards
Q & A
A weekend in Hawaii – Phil Evans

From the director — Stan Walker
Honorary RASNZ member award
Gaia & astrophysical implications – Stan Walker
Improved data for NSV 3933 and 3936 – Mati Morel
AAVSO Spring meeting, Indiana, June 2015 – Andrew Pearce
The EB & EW binaries project DSLR update – Mark Blackford
A meeting with Stella Kafka (director AAVSO) – Alan Baldwin & Carl Knight
CCD targets for July to September – Tom Richards
CCD targets in the EB/EW project – Tom Richards
Cepheid observing – a challenge for visual observers – Stan Walker
The Red Dwarf challenge – Tom Richards

From the director – Stan Walker
NSV 7590: Resolution of a mystery – Mati Morel
UU Vul recovered – Mati Morel
Dual maxima Mira stars in colour – Stan Walker
V1369 Centauri after 500 days – Stan Walker
eta Carinae – Stan Walker
QZ Carinae project – Mark Blackford, Ed Budding, Roger Butland and Stan Walker
Observing Betelgeuse in the near IR – Carl Knight

And now for someone completely different — Tom Richards
From the director — Stan Walker
Activities in 2014 – David Moriarty
Southern Eclipsing Binaries – EA Project – Margaret Streamer
Visual observations of the 2013 eclipse of BL Tel – Peter F Williams
Southern semi-regulars – a progress report – Aline Homes
Defocus for DSLR photometry – Mark Blackford
Why I hate German equatorials – Tom Richards
CCD targets in the EB/EW project – Tom Richards
Cepheid charts – can anyone help? – Stan Walker
R Hydrae – soon to be a dual maxima Mira star? – Stan Walker
Visual observations of Cepheids – an update – Stan Walker