Contents: Determining the scale of astrophotographs and the angular velocity of a fast-moving celestial body Modification and study of the shutter of the NAFA 3c/25 camera at Kharkov Observations of satellites with a TZK telescope fitted with a camera for photographing readings An instrument for recording the brightness of a satellite and determining the period of change The period of change of brightness of the rocket of the theird Soviet artificial earth satellite from observations at the Sofia Astronomical Observatory The results of photographic observations of artificial earth satellites Engelhardt Astronomical Observatory, Kazan Tashkent Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR.

Contents: Evaluating the accuracy of visual observation of stations of the USSR from data of observations of satellite 1960 epsilon 3 in 1961, by M.A. Lur'ye and N.L. Shkol'nikova; Method of visual observations of artificial earth satellites at the satellite observation station of Chernovitskiy University, by V.M. Kondratenko and Ye. A. Pavlyniv; Individual differences during observation of satellites, by V. Merkushev; Method of visual observation of artificial earth satellites at the Yerevan Station, by B. Ye. Tumanyan; Experience of photographing satellites by a NAFA-21 camera, by V.A. Merkushev; About increased accuracy of processing photographs of artificial earth satellites, obtained with a small camera, by A.L. Chikarenko and S.A. Filipcheva; On the evolution of orbits of artificial earth satellites in connection with solar activity, by N.P. Slovokhotova; Preliminary average orbital elements of the cabin of the first Soviet space ship (1960 epsilon 3) for October-December 1962, by G.A. Chebotarev and Ye. N. Makarova; Preliminary orbital elements of Soviet artificial earth satellite Cosmos 8 (1962 alpha xi 1) and its rocket-carrier (1962 alpha xi 2), by G.A. Chebotarev and Ye. N. Makarova.