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Variable stars

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• Stars

• Variable stars -- Periodicals
• Cataclysmic variable stars
• Pulsating stars

• Stars, Variable
• Variables (Stars)

• Information Bulletin on Variable Stars (full serial archives)

• Sunborn (2008), by Jeffrey A. Carver (PDF with commentary at starrigger.net)

• Quasars and Pulsars (Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1971), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML at reciprocalsystem.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Fundamentals of Stellar Astrophysics (c2003), by George W. Collins (PDF files at Harvard)
• The Virial Theorem in Stellar Astrophysics (c1978), by George W. Collins (PDF files at Harvard)
• Stars and Atoms (c1927), by Arthur Stanley Eddington (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Stars (New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1910), by George F. Chambers (PDF at djm.cc)
• Studien zum Antiken Sternglauben (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1916), by Erwin Pfeiffer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Man's Place in the Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1903), by Alfred Russel Wallace (illustrated HTML with commentary at wku.edu)

• Vorstellung der Gestirne auf XXXIV Kupfertafeln Nach der Pariser Ausgabe des Flamsteadschen Himmelsatlas (in German; Berlin and Stralsund: G. A. Lange, 1782), by Johann Elert Bode
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Soochow Astronomical Chart (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1945), by Will Carl Rufus and Hsing-Chih Tien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #618, 1961), by Allan Sandage
  • page images at HathiTrust; some material cut off in scan
  • PDF at Texas; low resolution scan with some text garbling

• Bulletin du Comité International Permanent pour l'Exécution Photographique de la Carte du Ciel (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Solar Influences on Global Change (1994), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Images of the Solar Upper Atmosphere From SUMER on SOHO (c2003), by U. Feldman, Ingolf E. Dammasch, Klaus Wilhelm, Philippe Lemaire, and Donald M. Hassler, ed. by B. Battrick (PDF files at Harvard)

• Bonner Durchmusterung (3 volumes; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1993), by Astronomical Data Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Catalogue of 33342 Stars for the Epoch 1950 (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #468, 5 volumes; 1936-1937), by Benjamin Boss, contrib. by Sebastian Albrecht, Heroy Jenkins, Harry Raymond, Arthur J. Roy, William B. Varnum, Ralph Elmer Wilson, and Lewis Boss (facsimile reprint; page images at HathiTrust)
• General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities, Prepared at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California (Papers of the Mount Wilson Observatory, v8; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #601, originally printed 1953, reprinted 1963), by Ralph Elmer Wilson (page images at carnegiescience.edu)

• The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #618, 1961), by Allan Sandage
  • page images at HathiTrust; some material cut off in scan
  • PDF at Texas; low resolution scan with some text garbling

• Magnitudes and Colors of Stars North of +80° (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #532; 1941), by Frederick Hanley Seares, Frank E. Ross, and Mary C. Joyner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Protostars and Planets IV (c2000), ed. by Vincent Mannings, Alan Boss, and Sara S. Russell (PDF at Arizona)
• Protostars and Planets II (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1985), ed. by David C. Black and Mildred Shapley Matthews (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Ozone Depletion, Greenhouse Gases, and Climate Change, by National Research Council (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Potential Applications of Concentrated Solar Energy: Proceedings of a Workshop (1991), by National Research Council Energy Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Protostars and Planets IV (c2000), ed. by Vincent Mannings, Alan Boss, and Sara S. Russell (PDF at Arizona)

• A New Science Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Protostars and Planets III (Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press, c1993), ed. by Eugene H. Levy and Jonathan Irving Lunine (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• A New Science Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Oceanic, American Indian, and African Myths of Snaring the Sun (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #168; Honolulu: The Museum, 1940), by Katharine Luomala (page images at HathiTrust)

• Atlas of Solar Magnetic Fields (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #626, 1967), by Robert Howard, Václav Bumba, and Sara F. Smith (page images and PDF files with commentary via gonewithsolarwind.com)

• Magnitudes and Colors of Stars North of +80° (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #532; 1941), by Frederick Hanley Seares, Frank E. Ross, and Mary C. Joyner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stars of High Luminosity (Harvard Observatory Monographs #3; New York and London: Pub. for the Observatory by the McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1930), by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities, Prepared at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California (Papers of the Mount Wilson Observatory, v8; Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #601, originally printed 1953, reprinted 1963), by Ralph Elmer Wilson (page images at carnegiescience.edu)

• Sun Lore of All Ages (New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by William Tyler Olcott (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Boletín del Observatorio Meteorológico, by Sociedad Geográfica de La Paz (partial serial archives)

• The Stars of High Luminosity (Harvard Observatory Monographs #3; New York and London: Pub. for the Observatory by the McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1930), by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Other Tongues, Other Flesh (1953), by George Hunt Williamson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Conversaciones Sobre la Pluralidad de los Mundos (in Spanish; Madrid: Impr. de Villalpando, 1796), by M. de Fontenelle
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Man's Place in the Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1903), by Alfred Russel Wallace (illustrated HTML with commentary at wku.edu)
• More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1854), by David Brewster
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Plan of the Creation: or, Other Worlds, and Who Inhabit them (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1859), by C. L. Hequembourg
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Plurality of Worlds (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854), by William Whewell, contrib. by Edward Hitchcock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Plurality of Worlds (new edition; Boston: Gould and Lincoln; et al., 1858), by William Whewell, contrib. by Edward Hitchcock (page images at MOA)
• The Plurality of Worlds (new edition; Boston: D. Lathrop; Dover, NH: G. T. Day and Co., ca. 1860), by William Whewell, contrib. by Edward Hitchcock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mathematical and Philosophical Works Of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1708), by John Wilkins (page images at Google)
• Lumen (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Camille Flammarion
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Protostars and Planets III (Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press, c1993), ed. by Eugene H. Levy and Jonathan Irving Lunine (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Protostars and Planets: Studies of Star Formation and the Origin of the Solar System (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1978), ed. by Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun (c2003), by Jay M. Pasachoff (PDF files at Harvard)
• A New Sun: The Solar Results from Skylab (1979), by John A. Eddy, ed. by Rein Ise (illustrated HTML at NASA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.