COMMISSION 27 OF THE I.A.U.
            INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                         Number 1401

                                                     Konkoly Observatory
                                                     Budapest
                                                     1978 March 29


         A NEW SEMIREGULAR VARIABLE IN CANCER

On about 140 photographs taken between March, 1974 and
June, 1977 a new semiregular variable which probably belongs to
SRb type was found. The position of the star is,

         alpha= 8h57m56s   delta=+8d35.9' (1900.0)

Photographic material is super panchromatic emulsion with yellow-
green filter which gives brightness very close to visual magnitude.
The range of variation is 10.0m-11.0m so far. The light curve is
fairly irregular as shown in Figure 1, but it seems to have 
periodicity of roughly 110 days. Figure 2 is the finding chart of the
star.


                                 M. HURUHATA

                                 Hodozawa 88,
                                 Gotemba-shi, 412
                                 Japan


                          [FIGURE 1]

                          [FIGURE 2]