COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
         INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                     Number 2261

                                    Konkoly Observatory
                                    Budapest
                                    1983 January 10
                                    HU ISSN 0374-0676



       VY AQUARII - CONFIRMATION OF THE 1973 OUTBURST



  A star-like image at the position of the cataclysmic variable VY Aqr on
chart 225 of the Papadopoulos atlas has been discovered by Mc Naught who
announced this finding as a possible outburst overlooked as yet (IBVS No. 2232).
  This was really an outburst; it can be confirmed on three Sonneberg sky
patrol plates of the field 21h00deg taken by H. Huth. I did the following
estimates:



UT                        mpg
                         
1973 June 27.0          >12.2   invisible
     July 30.0            9.5
     Aug. 1.0             9.9
      "   6.0            10.6
      "  24.0           >13.0   invisible
      "  25.9           >12.0   "
      "  26.9           >12.0   "
      "  27.9           >13.0   "



The stars 1 to 4 of Vogt (RASNZ/VSS Publ. 8, p.8) and HD photographic 
magnitudes of 4 additional stars served for comparison.



          W. WENZEL

          Sternwarte Sonneberg
          Zentralinstitut fur Astrophysik
          der Akademie der Wissenschaften
          der DDR