COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
         INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                     Number 1912

                                   Konkoly Observatory
                                   Budapest
                                   1981 January 19

                                   HU ISSN 0374-0676



      POSSIBLE HUBBLE-SANDAGE OBJECTS AMONG VARIABLES
          DISCOVERED IN THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY



   With the 2 meter telescope of the Bulgarian Academy of 
Sciences several plates of the central and south-west region of the
Andromeda galaxy have been obtained in 1980. The limiting 
magnitude is about 21.2 and 22.0 magnitudes for plates of one and
three hour exposure time, respectively.

   Hubble (1929) observed Nova 36 with a constant magnitude
of 18.7 during 11 years. (Hubble's magnitude scale is translated
into Baade and Swope's (1964) system.) Nova 36 is also visible
on our plates: its magnitude is B=20.0. Therefore, our data show
that this star is not a nova.
   Hubble also discovered the irregular variable stars H11,
H20, H43 and H44. Baade and Swope observed two of these stars
and classified H43 as an irregular variable (20.70m-21.30m) and
H44 - as R CrB variable (19.85m-21.45m). H11 and H20, however,
have not been. investigated since 1928. Here we give the 
magnitudes of these stars:

	  J.D.            star   	B(mag)
	2444529           H11    	21.2
	2444529           H20          >21.2
	2444530           H43    	20.3
	2444530           H44    	20.0

The magnitudes of H11, H43 and H44 presented above are within
the limits of their amplitudes as given by Hubble (1929) and
Baade and Swope (1964). But H20 is with about 2m weaker in 
comparison with its brightness in 1928 (now it is 21.2 in comparison
with 18.5-19.5 in 1928).
	It is quite possible that Nova 36 and H20 are irregular
variable stars - Hubble-Sandage objects (S Dor variables). Nova
26 and Nova 39 were also observed by Hubble during several years,
but on our plates these stars are not visible (B>22 mag).
They are also possible Hubble-Sandage objects.





    A. S. SHAROV                 	G. R. IVANOV
    Sternberg Astronomical      	Department of Astronomy
    Institute, Moscow, USSR     	University of Sofia,
                                        Sofia, Bulgaria




References:
Baade, W., Swope, H., 1964, A.J. 70, 212 [BIBCODE 1965AJ.....70..212B ]
Hubble, E. 1929, ApJ. 69, 103 [BIBCODE 1929ApJ....69..103H ]