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Volume 47: March 2008 to December 2008, principal articles and abstracts.

Volume 47, number 1: March 2008
Awarua Tracking Station.
Radio Astronomy for the Masses: Radio Jove.
Radio Astronomy for the Masses: Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances.
The Development of the Astronomy Curriculum for New Zealand Secondary Schools.
The Hα: Long Lived Prominences in January and February 2008.
RASNZ Annual Report for 2007.
Book Review - Astronomy Aotearoa.
Cover March 2008
Volume 47, number 2: June 2008
Harry Williams (1911-2008).
Graham Blow, FRASNZ.
Observations of Lunar Occultations of Double Stars.
Protecting a most valuable heritage - the Starlight Reserve Initiative.
Book Review - America in Space: NASA'S First Fifty Years.
Cover June 2008
Volume 47, number 3: September 2008
Beverly-Begg Observatory's New Telescope.
Anomalous Flaring in Cycle 23?
Nighttime - Our Environment.
Patrick Moor honoured.
Cover September 2008
Volume 47, number 4: December 2008
Heliacal Leo - Obnubilated Draco.
Mt John University Observatory: the past, the present and the future.
An Eye on the Universe.
Observatory Automation - is it for you?
Introducing the AUT 12m Radio Telescope.
Astronomy at the University of Canterbury, Report for 2007.
Cover December 2008

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