COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                     NUMBER 594

                              Konkoly Observatory
                              Budapest
                              1971 November 24



         7 NEW VARIABLE STARS IN NGC 1261


      Fourcade and Laborde (1) discovered 6 variable
stars in the globular cluster NGC 1261. On 11 plates taken
with the 40" telescope of Siding Spring Observatory from
August 14 to September 11, 1970, we have discovered 7 new
variable stars. B magnitudes were determined using Alcaino
and Contreras (2) standards. Coordinates x, y were measured
using Fourcade and Laborde's system of reference.


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                                 range           Alcaino
Var.      x           y                              No.
No.                          max       min
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7      + 55.4"     + 70.0"   16.17     17.43    172
8      + 89.1      +  9.1    16.35     17.42      -
9      -135.7      -134.4    16.13     17.48      -
10     - 78.4      - 92.8    16.79     17.35     30
11     - 53.9      - 68.2    16.22     17.23     56
12     - 85.0      + 92.7    16.85     17.29    189
13     -109.3      +133.3    15.21     15.86      9 red
                                                   giant
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In the last column is given the number of the star in the
list published by Alcaino and Contreras (2).




                 C. BARTOLINI (Bologna Observatory)
                 F. GRILLI (Bologna Observatory)
                 J.W. ROBERTSON (Mount Stromlo Obs.)





(1) Laborde J.R., Fourcade C.R. - Mem. S.A.It., 37, 251
    (1966) [BIBCODE 1966MmSAI..37..251L ]
(2) Alcaino G., Contreras C. - Astron. and Astrophys., 11,
    14, (1971) [BIBCODE 1971A&A....11...14A ]