COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                    Number 1383

                                  Konkoly Observatory
                                  Budapest
                                  1978 February 6


   PHOTOELECTRIC MINIMA OF ECLIPSING VARIABLE VW CEPHEI



      The following list contains minima of the eclipsing
variable VW Cephei, obtained at the Bucharest Observatory. The
observations were made with a 50 cm Cassegrain reflector and a
photometer employing an unrefrigerated EMI 9502 B photomultiplier 
tube.
   All the time of minima and the mean errors sigma were calculated
by the method of Kwee and van Woerden.
      The table gives the heliocentric minima, the mean
error sigma, the different (O-C), the type of filter, the observer
and remarks. The (O-C) is referred to the Second Supplement to
the GCVS (Moscow, 1974).
      Abbreviations of the observers' names:
      Cr - Cristescu Cornelia
      Op - Oprescu Gabriela
      Su - Suran Marian Doru

    J.D. hel.        sigma      (O-C)       Filt.    Obs.     Rem.
2443
    395.4722       +-0a0003    +0.0101d      U       Op. 
    399.2870       +-0.0005    +0.0118      U,B      Cr.
    417.3786       +-0.0004    +0.0129     U,B,V     Op.
    421.2737       +-0.0005    +0.0116     U,B,V     Su.
    421.4126       +-0.0005    +0.0114       U       Su.     Min.II
    424.3332       +-0.0004    +0.0097      B,V      Cr.
    436.3029       +-0.0003    +0.0119     U,B,V     Cr.
    441.3090       +-0.0003    +0.0083       V       Cr.
    448.2663       +-0.0007    +0.0077      B,V      Cr.
    459.2635       +-0.0004    +0.0119     U,B,V     Op.     Min.II





                          C. CRISTESCU
                          Bucharest
                       Center of Astronomy
                       and Space Sciences