COMMISSION 27 OF THE I.A.U.
              INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                           Number 1428

                                                     Konkoly Observatory
                                                     Budapest
                                                     1978 May 19


                PROBABLE NOVA BOOTIS 1962

In the course of a systematic search for variable stars by
comparing 50 pairs of Sonneberg Sky Patrol plates of the 
constellations Coma Berenices, Bootes, Corona Borealis and Hercules I
found a probable nova of m = 10m.5 on an isolated plate of 1962
December 3 (J.D. 243 8001.705).
   Coordinates:

             alpha = 14h36m.4,  delta = +14d20' (1855.0).

   The object is invisible on the Palomar Sky Survey prints and on
all the other Sonneberg plates of the region. Lying in a zone of
noticeable optical distortion the image could easily be distinguished 
from a plate fault.
   Dr. L.D. Schmadel of Astronomisches Recheninstitut Heidelberg 
kindly checked the first 1981 numbered minor planets for the
given position and date, with negative result.
   It would be of high interest if the object could be observed 
on further plates of other collections.


                            H. GESSNER

                        Sternwarte Sonneberg
                    Zentralinstitut fur Astrophysik
                    der Akademie der Wissenschaften
                             der DDR