COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
           INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                          NUMBER 90

                                       Konkoly Observatory
                                       Budapest
                                       22 April 1965


                PROBABLE SUPERNOVA IN NGC 4162

  On plates, taken by Mr. K. Lochel with the astrograph
400/1600 mm for my program on RR Lyrae-stars near the galactic
pole, I found a star 16m.5 on 2 plates of 1965 April 1, missing
on plates of 1962 to 1964. It is at the sf edge of the galaxy;
the position is

         12h 4m 35s    + 24deg 55'.7      1855.0
         12  6  52     + 24    40.6       1900.0

  No other plates are available from 1965, Palomar Sky
Atlas shows at the place of the pretended Supernova a knot
which is also indicated on the best of our earlier plates.
The new object is situated immediately south of this knot.


                            C. HOFFMEISTER
                         Sonneberg Observatory