The Planets for 1955 24 Eclipses, 1955 ------29 the Sky and Astronomical Phenomena Month by Month - - 30 Phenomena of Jupiter’S S a Te Llite S
THE OBSERVER’S HANDBOOK FOR 1955 PUBLISHED BY The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada C. A. C H A N T, E d ito r RUTH J. NORTHCOTT, A s s is t a n t E d ito r DAVID DUNLAP OBSERVATORY FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION P r i c e 50 C e n t s TORONTO 13 Ross S t r e e t Printed for th e Society By the University of Toronto Press THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA The Society was incorporated in 1890 as The Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto, assuming its present name in 1903. For many years the Toronto organization existed alone, but now the Society is national in extent, having active Centres in Montreal and Quebec, P.Q.; Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, London, and Windsor, Ontario; Winnipeg, Man.; Saskatoon, Sask.; Edmonton, Alta.; Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. As well as nearly 1000 members of these Canadian Centres, there are nearly 400 members not attached to any Centre, mostly resident in other nations, while some 200 additional institutions or persons are on the regular mailing list of our publications. The Society publishes a bi-monthly J o u r n a l and a yearly O b s e r v e r ’s H a n d b o o k . Single copies of the J o u r n a l are 50 cents, and of the H a n d b o o k , 50 cents. Membership is open to anyone interested in astronomy. Annual dues, $3.00; life membership, $40.00.
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