COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
           INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                          Number 965

                                       Konkoly Observatory
                                       Budapest
                                       1975 February 20


  THE NEXT MINIMUM OF THE LONG PERIOD ECLIPSING BINARY EE Cep

This very interesting eclipsing star with P = 2049d and D = 0.013p
(Meinunger, Mitt. veranderl. Sterne 6, p. 89) enters the next minimum 
on April 26/27, 1975 (mid-eclipse May 8). The minimum takes
about 25 days.
According to Herbig (ApJ 131, p. 632) the spectral type is B5:neb.
An image-tube spectrogram taken by Notni at Tautenburg shows also
a bright H-alpha-line. Spectroscopical observations at the minimum are
therefore of great interest.
The author intends to publish a summarizing report; observers are
requested to place their observations at his disposal. On Sonneberg
plates taken by Gotz we measured a sequence of comparison stars.
The magnitudes are in the system of Hoag's sequence in NGC 7235
(Hoag et al.,Publ. US Nav.Obs. Second Series Vol. XVII, p. 478).
EE Cep (max.) and star c were observed photoelectrically by Barbier
et al. (Astron. and Astrophys. 27, p. 421). These observations 
contradict the measurements of EE Cep given by Fernie (ApJ 172, p. 383),
who probably observed another star.

             V      B      U
EE Cep     10.72  11.09  10.91     BD +55deg2693
  a        10.5   10.7   11.0      BD +55deg2690
  b        11.5   11.3   11.5
  c        11.32  11.57  11.49     BD +55deg2691
  d        12.3   12.4   12.6
  e        12.7   13.0   13.0
  f        13.1   13.6   13.6
  g        13.1   13.7   13.9
  h        12.2   13.5   14.3:
  i        13.1   13.7   13.8
  k        13.3   14.3:  14.1
  l        13.4   14.7    -



                        [FIGURE 1]

                                      L. MEINUNGER
                                 Sonneberg Observatory of
                           Central Institute for Astrophysics of
                              Academy of Sciences of the GDR