COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                     Number 1093

                                 Konkoly Observatory
                                 Budapest
                                 1976 February 4




       THE EMISSION-LINE STARS FG AND FH AQUILAE


   The stars FG Aql (m_p=14.1-15.5) and FH Aql (m_p=14.1-16) are
provisionally classified as rapid, irregular variables in the
GCVS. These stars are located at 1900 coordinates alpha=18h57.0m,
delta=- 05d45', l=29.2d, b=-05.0d, and are separated by only about 
twenty arc seconds (see identification chart).

                           [FIGURE 1]

   We recently determined that these variables are identical
with two faint Halpha-emission-line stars first noted by C.B. Stephenson 
(unpublished) on an objective-prism plate taken with the University 
of Michigan's Curtis Schmidt telescope on July 4 (U.T.),
1959. The emission on that date was found to be moderately strong
in both stars. Unfortunately, because of faintness, spectral types
cannot be derived from objective-prism plates available in the
files of the Warner and Swasey Observatory.
   Inspection of the National Geographic Society-Palomar Sky
Survey shows that the stars lie at the eastern edge of a small
dark nebula i.e. Barnard 130. The presence of hydrogen emission,
the irregular light variations, and the apparent association with
dark material suggest that these stars belong to the Orion population 
of variables as defined by Herbig and Rao (Ap.J. 174, 401, 1972).
There appear to be no other faint emission-line stars in the 
immediate vicinity of this pair.


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