COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
         INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                   Number 1904

                                  Konkoly Observatory
                                  Budapest
                                  1981 January 5

                                  HU ISSN 0374-0676



              SKY PATROL OBSERVATIONS OF
           PROBABLE NOVA CYGNI 1980 (HONDA)



On Sonneberg Sky Patrol plates, partly from pre-discovery dates,
the following brightness data could be derived by comparing the
nova with the Harvard sequences in SA 65 and 66 (corrected to
the Mt. Wilson system) and (on photovisual plates) with SAO 
71612, 71616, 71656. Because of the near-edge position of the
object on the plates the magnitudes are difficult to obtain end
therefore provisional.



	UT               mpg        mpv
1980 	Nov. 1.8   	12.5:m      -
	Nov.27.8        11.9   	    9.0m
	Dec. 1.8        11.8        9.3
	Dec. 3.8        11.9:        -





                              H. HUTH

                         Sternwarte Sonneberg
                     Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik
                    Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR