COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                    Number 2081

                                Konkoly Observatory
                                Budapest
                                1982 February 1

                                HU ISSN 0374-0676





            CX AURIGAE: A K-DWARF VARIABLE



  Recently one of us (W.P.B.) noted that the small-range variable 
CX Aurigae = HV 7667 (Shapley and Boyd 1937) agreed quite
closely in position with a star assigned a spectral type of
dK8 by Vyssotsky (1956). Inspection of the original Harvard
plates (by E.P.B.) and a red-sensitive Warner and Swasey Observatory 
objective-prism plate, which incidentally confirms the
dwarf nature of the star, has shown that the objects are in fact
identical. Further study, both spectroscopic and photometric,
might prove of interest.
  E.P.B. wishes to thank Harvard College Observatory for its
hospitality.



              EMILIA P. BELSERENE
              Maria Mitchell Observatory
              Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554

              WILLIAM P. BIDELMAN
              Warner and Swasey Observatory
              Case Western Reserve University
              Cleveland, Ohio 44106



References:
Shapley, H. and Boyd, C.D. 1937, Harvard Bull. No. 905, p. 7. [BIBCODE 1937BHarO.905....7S ]
Vyssotsky, A.N. 1956, Astron, J. 61, p. 201. [BIBCODE 1956AJ.....61..201V ]