COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
         INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                       Number 957

                                      Konkoly Observatory
                                      Budapest
                                      1975 January 15


      A NEW RR LYRAE VARIABLE IN COMA BERENICES

  On Nantucket plates taken between 1964 and 1974 I have found a
new RR Lyrae-type star at 12h14m23s +29deg00'.4 (1900). Step estimates
of its brightness on about 100 plates were carried out by the 
students Donna Henry, Sharon Beck and Janet Johnston. The means of their
estimates have been reduced to very provisional photographic magnitudes 
on the basis of stars in SA 56 some 2.5 degrees distant.
  In the Figure, I have represented the observations by a reciprocal
period of 1.87099^{-d}. The insert is a diagram of the field approximately 
20'x20' with North at the top. The brightest star in the field
is BD +29deg2280.
  The elements are: Max = J.D. 40377.654 + 0d.534476, range 14.8-16.lpg.
Miss Johnston has tested this period against possible spurious periods 
but did not succeed in finding any other period which would satisfy 
the observations equally well.

                         [FIGURE 1]


                                     DORRIT HOFFLEIT
                                     Maria Mitchell Observatory
                                     Nantucket, Mass., U.S.A.