COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                     NUMBER 473


                                 Konkoly Observatory
                                 Budapest
                                 1970 October 24




       PHOTOELECTRIC OBSERVATIONS OF CQ Cep


        Three-colour photoelectric observations in a system
close to U, B, V were obtained on the Wolf-Rayet eclipsing
binary CQ Cep during 14 nights in February-May of 1969. The
observations were made at the 45-cm reflector of the Ural
University Observatory Kourovka, using HD 214259 and
HD 214220 as comparison and check stars.

        195, 194 and 204 observations were obtained in U,B,
V, respectively. Each of these observations consists of two
tracings for CQ Cep and two tracings for the comparison
star.
        The light-curves are plotted on the Figure. Observations 
at different nights are denoted by different
markings.
        On 28-29th March we have observed some anomalous
effect in the phase interval 0p53-0p60 which lasted over
2 hours. A sharp decrease of the brightness of about 0m1
was followed by a flash which showed the amplitudes 0m35 in
U, 0m13 in B and 0m14 in V.

        A detailed account of the observations and their
analysis will be given in a paper to be published in "Scientific 
Notices of the Ural University".


                       [FIGURE 1]


       T. A. KARTASHOVA
Observatory of the Ural University
         Kourovka