COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
       INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                    NUMBER 374


                                  Konkoly Observatory
                                  Budapest
                                  1969 September 8


	   ON THE STAR N 98 IN NGC 2360

	According to Baker's and Eggen's observations the
star N 98 in NGC 2360 is a variable. Eggen (Ap. J. 152, 83)
has suggested, that if a variable is regular, its period
may be a multiple of about 1 day.
	At the request of Dr. Iorgensen, 109 negatives have
been obtained with exposure times of 4-5 minutes in V colour
(GG11) by means of the Schmidt Camera (360-440 mm, F=630 mm)
from December 13, 1968 through March 17, 1969. The cluster
stars were used as standards. The mean square error does
not exceed 0.05m. The star shows small fluctuations of light
(0.1m-0.2m) near 12.80m almost through the whole observational 
period.
	One can hardly make any inference on periodic
variations of the star from these data.

			[FIGURE 1]
			[FIGURE 2]

	The behaviour of the variable on December 20-21 and
21-22, 1968 attracts attention. The first night, nearly
during 2 hours (U.T. = 21h29m -23h50m), the variable
brightened by 0.78m, the second night (U.T. = 22h31m - 23h43m)
the increase of light amounted to 0.45m.
	The observations of December 20-21 are given in
Fig. 1, those of January 17-18 in Fig. 2, both covering more
than 2 hours of slight fluctuations.

July 28, 1969		

				T. J. BARBLISHVILI
	                      	Abastumani Astrophysical
				Observatory, Mt. Kanobili
					USSR