COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                    NUMBER 789

                                    Konkoly Observatory
                                    Budapest
                                    1973 May 9

"Rosemary Hill Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Contribution No. 15."



                  MINIMA OF 44i BOOTIS

     Photoelectric BV observations of the eclipsing binary,
44i Bootis, were taken with the photometer attached to the
30-inch (76 cm) reflector of the Rosemary Hill Observatory
during the years 1969-71. The heliocentric times of minimum
light (averages of the values obtained with the blue and yellow 
filters) are as follows:


-------------------------------
   Hel JD
   2400000+     E        O-C
-------------------------------
   40339.6493  6819     +0.0070
     346.6161  6845     +0.0106
     346.7482  6845.5   +0.0088
     392.5449  7016.5   +0.0093
     392.6820  7017     +0.0125
     714.5891  8219     +0.0068
     714.7299  8219.5   +0.0137
     769.6286  8424.5   +0.0104
     769.7628  8425     +0.0107
    1102.6556  9668     +0.0103
-------------------------------


The epochs (E's) and (O-C)'s were calculated using the light
elements given by Pohl (A.N. 291, 111, 1969):

     Primary minimum = JD 2438573.4166 + 0.26781430d E

The (O-C)'s confirm that the period of 44i Bootis has increased 
as Scarfe and Brimacombe (A.J. 76, 50, 1971) and Bergeat, et
al. (Astron. and Astrophys. 17, 215 1972) have previously 
reported.



                          I. RUDNICK
                      University of Florida
                    Gainesville, Florida 32601