COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                    NUMBER 165



                                    Konkoly Observatory
                                    Budapest
                                    10 November 1966




                       3 C 446

        During the month of October, 1966, a photographic patrol of
the quasi stellar object 3 C 446 was initiated at the Bethany Observing
Station of Yale University Observatory using the 40" telescope. Eye
estimates of eleven plates, exposed on K 103aO emulsion, revealed
that significant, short period, optical variations occurred over an 
interval of nineteen days Between October 11 and October 19, 3 C 446
decreased in brightness by at least 0,5 magnitudes, with the majority
of the change occuring in the three day interval between October 16
and October 19. Thereafter, the object was observed to brighten again
so that by October 30 it had reestablished, roughly, its magnitude of
16 October.


     3 November 1966

                          J. H. HUNTER Jr.
                          A. J. WESSELINK
                     Yale University Observatory
                      New Haven, Connecticut