COMMISSION 27 OF THE I.A.U.
               INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                            Number 1435

                                                      Konkoly Observatory
                                                      Budapest
                                                      1978 June 9


            A NEW FLARE STAR IN CASSIOPEIA?

A new flare type object probably appeared on the photographic 
plate taken by the sky-patrol Tessar camera of the Sonneberg 
Observatory of the Central Institute for Astrophysics of
the Academy of Sciences of the GDR on January 29, 1962 (J.D.
2437694.262). On this plate the magnitude of the object was
m = 11.1 +- 0.2m; the plates before and after (taken on January 
27 and January 31, 1962) show the star at a brightness  of
m = 12.3m +- 0.2m. The examination of a series of plates of
the Sonneberg Observatory, taken in the years 1928-1977, shows
no other light changes; the brightness of the object remained at
m = 12.3m +- 0.2m.
   The coordinates of the object are: alpha = 1h13.8m and delta =
= 65d10.5' (1950.0). The identification chart is given in Figure 
1. For the measurements (by estimation methods) on the
plates, the comparison star g, c and h from Fig. 1 were used;
their brightness are linked to the sequence of stars No. 5, 6, 8
and 12 from Gonzales and Gonzales (1959) and to the a, b and
c stars (the comparison stars for the variable BP Cas) from
Solovjev (1951).
   The star lies only 14' from the centre, but outside the
error circle for the X-ray source 2S 0114+650. The investigation
of this possibly new flare star in Cassiopeia was made during
the author's visit at the Sonneberg Observatory.


                                 RENE HUDEC

                      Astronomical Institute of the
                      Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
                      Observatory Ondrejov
                      Czechoslovakia



References:

Gonzales G. and Gonzales G.: 1954, Bol. Obs. Tonantzintla-Tacubaya, 1,
   No. 9, 21.
Solovjev, A.V.: 1951, Peremennye Zvezdy 7, 286.


                        [FIGURE 1]