1. Publisher's note

   Announcement Pages: iii - iii

2. Editor's note

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - v

3. Optical and infrared instrumentation

   • J. W. Menzies
   • I. S. Glass

   OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 183

4. Supernovae

   • J. W. Menzies

   OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 193

5. Viewing angles in some selected BL Lac objects

   • F. J. Zhang
   • L. B. Bååth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 205

6. The cosmological model of Brans-Dicke theory

   • H. Q. Lu
   • K. S. Cheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 218

7. Microlensing and polarization

   • M. B. Bogdanov
   • A. M. Cherepashchuk
   • M. V. Sazhin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 231

8. Some theoretical considerations about the origin of the 220 nm interstellar hump

   • G. Pascoli
   • J. Leclercq

   OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 243

9. The existence of stationary ion-acoustic double layers in a plasma with an electron beam

   • Yasunori Nejoh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 253

10. The optical variability of the Seyfert galaxies NGC 4051 and NGC 1068

    • Y. H. Zhang
    • G. Z. Xie
    • B. X. Ye

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 262

11. String membranes in higher dimensions

    • Subenoy Chakraborty
    • Nivedita Pramanik

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 267

12. The yield of ionization in critical ionization velocity space experiments

    • Shu T. Lai
    • William J. Mcneil
    • Edmond Murad

    OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 287

13. High velocity neutron stars and γ-ray bursts

    • Daming Wei
    • Tan Lu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 296

14. Constraints on the jet Lorentz factor in superluminal very high energy γ-ray blazars

    • W. Bednarek

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 304

15. UV observations of the symbiotic star EG And

    • Claudio Bastos Pereira

    OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 318

16. Galactic nuclei

    • Wolfgang Kundt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 327

17. Observing molecular clouds in halo dark clusters through absorption lines

    • F. De Paolis
    • G. Ingrosso
    • M. Roncadelli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 335

18. BVR photometry of the three RS CVn binary stars: V711 Tau, UX Ari and IM Peg

    • Padmakar
    • S. K. Pandey

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 337 - 341

19. Biofluorescence and the extended red emission in astrophysical sources

    • F. Hoyle
    • N. C. Wickramasinghe

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 343 - 347

20. List of forthcoming papers

    Legacy Pages: 349 - 349