===================================================== THE JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL DATA -- Volume 19 -- 2013 ===================================================== [1] MEETING VENUS. A Collection of Papers presented at the Venus Transit Conference Tromsoe 2012 C. Sterken and P. P. Aspaas (Eds.) [1A] A Synoptic Overview of Selected Key People and Key Places Involved in Historical Transits of Venus Christiaan Sterken and Per Pippin Aspaas [1B] Science in Transit: Enlightenment Research Policy and Astronomy in Sweden Sven Widmalm [1C] Transit Observations as Means to Re-establish the Reputation of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gudrun Bucher [1D] Denmark-Norway, 1761-1769: Two Missed Opportunities? Per Pippin Aspaas [1E] The Amateur Astronomer Anders Hellant and the Plight of his Observations of the Transits of Venus in Tornio, 1761 and 1769 Osmo Pekonen [1F] The Expeditions of William Bayly and Jeremiah Dixon to Honningsvag and Hammerfest, 1769 Nils Voje Johansen [1G] Anders Johan Lexell's Role in the Determination of the Solar Parallax Johan Carl-Erik Sten and Per Pippin Aspaas [1H] Politicians, Patriots and Plotters: Unlikely Debates Occasioned by Maximilian Hell's Venus Transit Expedition of 1769 Laszlo Kontler [1J] From Keplerian Orbits to Precise Planetary Predictions: the Transits of the 1630s Steinar Thorvaldsen [1K] The French Savants, and the Earth-Sun Distance: a Resume Suzanne Debarbat [1M] Austrian-Hungarian Astronomical Observatories Run by the Society of Jesus at the Time of the 18th Century Venus Transits Thomas Posch, Per Pippin Aspaas, Akos Bazso and Isolde Mueller [1N] The Important Role of the Two French Astronomers J.-N. Delisle and J.-J. Lalande in the Choice of Observing Places during the Transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 Simone Dumont and Monique Gros [1P] Venusians: the Planet Venus in the 18th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate David Duner [1Q] Jean-Charles Houzeau and the 1882 Belgian Transit of Venus Expeditions Christiaan Sterken [1R] Observation of Venus and Mercury Transits from the Pic-du-Midi Observatory Guy Ratier and Sylvain Rondi [1S] The Transit of Venus on the Midnight Sun Observed from the Tromsoe Region Steinar Thorvaldsen [1T] A Venus Transit Midnight Flight over Alta Guy Ratier and Sylvain Rondi [1U] A Voyage to Vardoe. A Scientific Account of an Unscientific Expedition Christiaan Sterken, Per Pippin Aspaas, David Duner, Laszlo Kontler, Reinhard Neul, Osmo Pekonen and Thomas Posch [1V] Hilmar W. Duerbeck: Leaves of Memory Christiaan Sterken [2] Results from the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory Variable Star Search Program: Background, Procedure, and Results from RAO Field 1 Michael D. Williams & E. F. Milone [3] BOOK REVIEW: A Journey with Fred Hoyle (Second Edition) C. Wickramasinghe, C. Sterken [4] BOOK REVIEW: Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts M. Peterson, C. Sterken