COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
         INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                     Number 1691

                                     Konkoly Observatory
                                     Budapest
                                     1979 October 17




           A PROBABLE ECLIPSING VARIABLE IN VIRGO



   The star SAO 140120, not previously reported as variable, was observed
photoelectrically on 26, 27 and 29 May, 1979 with the 1 cm reflector at the
Table Mountain Observatory. A composite lightcurve from those observations is
shown in Figure 1. The period derived from the observations is 8h20m with an
amplitude of ~0.4 magnitude. The observations are not corrected for light
time.

                               [FIGURE 1]

   The star is listed as m_V = 7.8 and spectral class G0 in the SAO catalog.
The 1950 coordinates are alpha = 14h42m42s and delta = -6d31'30". A finding chart
including all stars to m_V ~~ 9.5 is given in Figure 2, with 1950 coordinates
indicated. The 4th magnitude star mu Vir is about 1d away from the variable.

                               [FIGURE 2]

Acknowledgment: This work was supported at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
under contract NAS 7-100 from the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration.


                         A. W. HARRIS
                         Jet Propulsion Laboratory
                         Pasadena, CA 91103
                         U. S. A.