COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U. 
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                     NUMBER 327


                                               Konkoly Observatory
                                               Budapest
                                               1969 February 8


           NEW VARIABLE STARS IN THE CENTRAL REGION
           OF THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER M 15 = NGC 7078


  By blinking some 103a-O photographs of the globular
cluster M 15 taken at Asiago at the cassegrain focus of the
122 cm telescope (scale: 1 mm = 10.6") the following new
variable stars have been found in the central region:

Var.No.    x"       y"      m_p      Kustner's No.

106      -30.3    +12.8   15.5-16.0      438
107      -32.5    -21.8   15.5-15.9      424
108      -32.4    -51.1   15.5-15.9      425
109      +12.7    -31.3   15.5-16.1      633
110      +31.7    -37.4   15.5-16.0      726
111      +41.7    - 0.7   15.3-16.2      777
112      +55.5    +35.0   15.3-16.3      822



Magnitudes of the new variables have been determined in
about thirty plates by visual estimates with stars of
Johnson and Schwarzschild (Ap.J. 113, 630, 1951). All of the
variables belong to the RR Lyrae type; Nos. 108 to 110 very
likely are RR-c stars of small amplitude.

January 31, 1969


                              L. ROSINO
                   Asiago Astrophysical Observatory
                     of the University of Padua