COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
         INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                        NUMBER 60

                                       Konkoly Observatory
                                       Budapest
                                       7 July 1964



                 THE SECOND NOVA PUPPIS 1963

      The Nova announced by W. Strohmeier (Int. Bull. No. 59.) as
first observed on a Boyden Observatory plate of February 13, 1964,
had its ascent in December 1969. In spite of the low meridian altitude
the region is well covered by sky patrol plates of Sonneberg 
Observatory yielding the following magnitudes:

1963 Dec.    9/10    243 8373.560    11.5m   invisible
      "     14/15        8378.563    10.6:
      "     19/20        8383.539     8.6
      "     20/21        8384.511     8.0
      "     21/22        8385.540     8.3
      "     22/23        8386.523     8.0
      "     23/24        8387.519     8.0

1964 Jan.   11/12        8406.444     8.5
      "       "          8406.482     8.5
      "     15/16        8410.434     9.5
      "     16/17        8411.458     9.6
      "     17/18        8412.479     9.5
      "     19/20        8414.435     9.6
      "     20/21        8415.467     9.7
      "       "          8415.510     9.7

     Feb.   13/14        8439.372    10.0
      "     14/15        8440.348    10.0
      "       "          8440.392    10.3

      The Nova was found invisible on 169 South African plates from
the years 1935 (2), 1936 (7), 1937 (50), 1938 (8), 1952 (46), 1953 (53),
1959 (3) and on 150 Sonneberg plates from the years 1929 to 1962. No
faint star could so far be identified with the Nova on Mt. Palomar
Charts 7h 48m -30deg.

Sonneberg Observatory, July 3, 1964.

                                     H. HUTH, C. HOFFMEISTER