Reports on Astronomy

Individual Reports of Divions/Commissions & Working Groups

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-1

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2. Commissions of the Executive Committee

   1. Documentation and Astronomical Data (Documentation et Donnees Astronomiques)

      • B. Hauck, O. Dluzhnevskaya, H. A. Abt, M. Bessell, M. Crézé, A. G. Hearn et al.

      Pages 3-8

   2. Commission 14: Atomic and Molecular Data

      • W. H. Parkinson, F. Rostas, S. J. Adelman, J. Dubau, N. Grevesse, S. Johansson et al.

      Pages 9-36

   3. Commission 38: Exchange of Astronomers (Echange Des Astronomes) (Commission of the Executive Committee)

      • H. E. Jorgensen, M. S. Roberts, D. M. Chitre, J. R. Ducati, G. Krisna, M. Morimoto et al.

      Pages 37-37

   4. Commission 46: The Teaching of Astronomy

      • J. R. Percy, J. Fierro, J. R. Percy, J. Fierro, A. H. Batten, A. Arellano Ferro et al.

      Pages 39-43

   5. Commission 50: Protection and Identification of Existing and Potential Astronomical Observational Sites

      • S. Isobe, W. T. Sullivan

      Pages 45-46

3. Working Groups of the Executive Committee

   1. Antarctic Astronomy

      • M. G. Burton

      Pages 49-50

   2. Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) (Group de Travail Pour la Nomenclature du System Planetaire)

      • K. Aksnes, M. Ya. Marov, B. G. Marsden, P. Moore, D. Morrison, T. C. Owen et al.

      Pages 51-56

   3. Working Group for the Worldwide Development of Astronomy / Groupe de Travail Pour le Developpement Mondial de L’Astronomie

      • A. H. Batten, J. B. Hearnshaw, B. Hidayat, H. Jorgensen, Y. Kozai, D. McNally et al.

      Pages 57-58

   4. Working Group on Future Large Scale Facilities in Astronomy

      • H. R. Butcher

      Pages 59-60

4. Division I — Fundamental Astrometry

   1. Division 1: Fundamental Astronomy (Astronomie Fondamentale) Report 1993–1996

      • J. Kovalevsky

      Pages 63-66

   2. Commission 4: Ephemerides (Ephémérides)

      • H. Kinoshita, M. Standish, V. K. Abalakin, T. Fukoshima, G. A. Krasinsky, P. K. Seidelmann et al.

      Pages 67-70

   3. Commission 8: Positional Astronomy

      • T. E. Corbin, H. Schwan, P. Benevides-Soares, L. Helmer, Xu Jiayan, J. Kovalevsky et al.

      Pages 71-80

   4. Commission 19: Earth Rotation (Rotation de la Terre)

      • J. Vondrák, D. D. McCarthy, F. Arias, S. Yang Fumin, D. Robertson, P. Wilson et al.

      Pages 81-96

   5. Commission 24: Photographic Astrometry

      • C. Turon, P. Ianna, E. Schilbach, C. de Vegt, P. D. Hemenway, P. A. Ianna et al.

      Pages 97-107

   6. Commission 31: Time (Heure)

      • H. Fliegel, T. Fukushima, D. Allan, D. Backer, G. Beutler, V. Brumberg et al.

      Pages 109-116

5. Division II — SUN & Heliosphere

   1. Reports on Astronomy 1996 from IAU Commissions 10, 12 and 49

      • Oddbjørn Engvold, Franz-Ludwig Deubner, Hartmut Ripken, Pierre Mein, Valentine I. Makarov, Alexander A. Ruzmaikin et al.

      Pages 119-148

   2. Reports from IAU Commission 12

      • Christoph U. Keller, Tim Brown, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, Rob J. Rutten, Sami K. Solanki, Rainer Hammer

      Pages 149-163

   3. Reports from IAU Commission 49

      • U. Mall, K. Scherer, V. Bothmer, Michael K. Bird, Hans J. Fahr, N. F. Cramer et al.

      Pages 165-179