COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
           INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                        Number 975

                                     Konkoly Observatory
                                     Budapest
                                     1975 March 13


                   A FLARE STAR IN LUPUS

   On the plate taken by Hidajat (1969) we have noted a conspicous
bright stellar image that does not appear on the plate taken 15 minutes 
later. The finding charts presented here are the reproductions
from the direct V plates (exp. times 10m) taken with the Bosscha
Schmidt Telescope. The discovery plate (left) was made on JD 2440800.03
(August 1, 1970). The arrow identifies the object. The position of the
object, estimated from SAO stars, is R.A. = 15h05.7m; Dec.=-48deg46' (1975),
located north of the bright star HD 133592.
   A check on our deep red spectral plate (103aE+RG1, exp.time 60m)
shows a faint object in the position of the afore-mentioned stellar
image. This plate was secured on June 12-13, 1969. Unfortunately, no
plates taken immediately prior to August 1, 1970 is available at our
Observatory. As can be estimated from the 2 plates, taken on August 1,
1970, the object has changed its brightness by 4 magnitudes within 15
minutes. To the best of our knowledge, no flare star in that position
has been reported.

                          [FIGURE 1]


                                     S. SURYADI

                                  Bosscha Observatory
                                  Lembang, Java
                                  Indonesia.

Reference:
B. Hidajat, 1969, Inf. Bull. for the Southern Hem., 14, 19