Volume 44 Number 2 JAAVSO 2016 The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers Variable Stars with the Kepler Space Telescope A comparison of the AAVSO visual (gray), digital V-band and green-filter (blue) observations, and the Kepler light curve (black) of the Mira star TU Cyg. Also in this issue... • First Photometric Analysis of the Solar-Type Binary, V428 (NSV 395), in the field of NGC 188 • The High Amplitude δ Scuti Star AD Canis Minoris • UY Puppis —A New Anomalous Z Cam Type Dwarf Nova • Crowded Fields Photometry with DAOPHOT • 50 Forgotten Miras Complete table of contents inside... The American Association of Variable Star Observers 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers Editor John R. Percy Kosmas Gazeas Ulisse Munari Dunlap Institute of Astronomy University of Athens INAF/Astronomical Observatory and Astrophysics Athens, Greece of Padua and University of Toronto Asiago, Italy Toronto, Ontario, Canada Edward F. Guinan Villanova University Nikolaus Vogt Associate Editor Villanova, Pennsylvania Universidad de Valparaiso Elizabeth O. Waagen Valparaiso, Chile John B. Hearnshaw Production Editor University of Canterbury Douglas L. Welch Michael Saladyga Christchurch, New Zealand McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Laszlo L. Kiss Editorial Board Konkoly Observatory David B. Williams Geoffrey C. Clayton Budapest, Hungary Whitestown, Indiana Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana Katrien Kolenberg Thomas R. Williams Universities of Antwerp Houston, Texas Zhibin Dai and of Leuven, Belgium Yunnan Observatories and Harvard-Smithsonian Center Lee Anne M. 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Equations should be referred to in the text as, e.g., equation (1). 2) Magnitude will be assumed to be visual unless otherwise specified. 3) Manuscripts may be submitted to referees for review without obligation of publication. Online Access Articles published in JAAVSO, and information for authors and referees may be found online at: https://www.aavso.org/apps/jaavso/ © 2016 The American Association of Variable Star Observers. All rights reserved. The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers Volume 44, Number 2, 2016 Editorial The Publishing Landscape: It’s the “Wild West” Out There John R. Percy 85 Variable Star Research CCD Photometry and Roche Modeling of the Eclipsing Overcontact Binary Star System TYC 01963-0488-1 Kevin B. Alton 87 Studies of the Long Secondary Periods in Pulsating Red Giants John R. Percy, Emily Deibert 94 First Photometric Analysis of the Solar-Type Binary, V428 (NSV 395), in the field of NGC 188 Ronald G. Samec, Jeremy Clark, David Maloney, Daniel B. Caton, Danny R. Faulkner 101 New Observations of V530 Andromedae: a Critical Contact Binary? Ronald G. Samec, Heather Chamberlain, Daniel B. Caton, Danny R. Faulkner, Jeremy D. Clark, Travis Shebs 108 The High Amplitude δ Scuti Star AD Canis Minoris Roy Andrew Axelsen, Tim Napier-Munn 119 UY Puppis —A New Anomalous Z Cam Type Dwarf Nova Rod Stubbings, Mike Simonsen 128 Discovery and Photometric Analysis of the δ Scuti Variable TYC 2168-132-1 Michael D. Joner, Eric G. Hintz, Giorgio Corfini 131 A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Binary Star PY Boötis Edward J. Michaels 137 Two High-Latitude UXORs Michael Poxon 146 Instruments, Methods, and Techniques Crowded Fields Photometry with DAOPHOT Elisabetta Artusi, Giancarlo Conselvan, Antonio Tegon, Danilo Zardin 149 Variable Star Data 50 Forgotten Miras Thomas Karlsson, Hans Bengtsson, Tomas Wikander, Gustav Holmberg, Robert Wahlström, Chris Allen 156 Recent Minima of 194 Eclipsing Binary Stars Gerard Samolyk 164 Table of Contents continued on following pages Review Papers Variable Stars with the Kepler Space Telescope László Molnár, Róbert Szabó, Emese Plachy 168 Period Changes and Evolution in Pulsating Variable Stars Hilding R. Neilson, John R. Percy, Horace A. Smith 179 Abstracts of Papers and Posters Presented at the 105th Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, Held in St. Louis, Missouri, May 5–7, 2016 Learning from Pulsating Stars: Progress over the Last Century (Abstract) Horace Smith 196 Miras, Mass Loss, and the Ultimate Fate of the Earth (Abstract) Lee Anne Willson 196 A Detailed Survey of Pulsating Variables in Five Globular Clusters (Abstract) Brian W. Murphy 196 Establishing a CCD Light Curve For BW Vul (Abstract) David Cowall 197 Studying RR Lyrae Stars with Kepler/K2 (Abstract) Charles Kuehn 197 Unsolved Problems for Main-Sequence Variable Stars Revealed by the NASA Kepler Data (Abstract) Joyce Ann Guzik 197 Type C Semiregulars and Irregulars: the Forgotten Pulsating Luminous Stars (Abstract) David G. Turner 197 Identification of ASAS Ellipsoidal Variables Misclassified as Miscellaneous in VSX (Poster abstract) Kristine Larsen, Corwin Hoover 197 Utilizing the AAVSO’s Variable Star Index (VSX) in Undergraduate Research Projects (Poster abstract) Kristine Larsen 198 RR Lyrae in Sagittarius Dwarf Globular Clusters (Poster abstract) Barton J.