COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
          INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                       Number 1115

                                   Konkoly Observatory
                                   Budapest
                                   1976 March 18


                   CSV 8871




     CSV 8871 = BV 324 was discovered by Strohmeier, and announced 
as an eclipsing binary (11.9m - 12.5m ph) (Veroff. Remeis-Sternwarte
Bamberg, Bd. V, 5. 1960).
     I examined this star on 144 sky patrol plates of the Bruno-
H.-Burgel-Observatory Hartha (JD.2436985-42741) and found that the
star was of beta Lyrae-type with following preliminary elements:
     Min.(hel.) = JD. 2437017.434 + 1.5146774d E (EB)
                (11.26m - 11.91m / 11.88m ph)

Observed minima: 
Min.(hel.) 24...    Epoch       O-C

37017.434              0      +-0.000
  045.410         +   18.5     - .046 (n=2)
39027.430           1327       + .019
  033.483           1331       + .013
  389.404           1566       - .015
41596.301           3023       - .003
  599.333           3025      +- .000 (n=2)
  958.308           3262       - .004
42036.310           3313.5     - .008

     Further particulars will be published in "Mitteilungen der
Bruno-H.-Burgel-Sternwarte Hartha".



                         THOMAS BERTHOLD
                       Bruno-H.-Burgel-Sternwarte
                       DDR 7302 Hartha.