COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
       INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                    NUMBER 612

                                      Konkoly Observatory
                                      Budapest
                                      1972 January 17


           SUPERNOVA 1955 IN A PECULIAR GALAXY


By comparing Schmidt-plates of the Konkoly Observatory with the Palomar
Sky-Survey prints a supernova has been found in a peculiar Galaxy of magnitude
14.7 on Field No 155 with the coordinates RA 11^h2^m.2, D +30deg18' (1950). The
brightness of the SN is about 16,5 magnitude, its distance from the center of
the galaxy is E 8",4, N 14",4 (s. Figure).

                             [FIGURE 1]

The Galaxy is No 5 - 26 - 47 in the Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies by
B.A. Voroncov-Veljaminov and A.A. Krasnogorskaya.


M. LOVAS
Konkoly Observatory
Budapest