COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
        INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                    Number 2353

                                     Konkoly Observatory
                                     Budapest
                                     17 June 1983

                                     HU ISSN 0374-0676



         BIBLIOGRAPHIC CATALOGUE OF VARIABLE STARS



 At the Centre de Donnees Stellaires (Observatoire de Strasbourg, France)
(CDS) the Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars (BCVS) is being built up.
Its contents is based on the card index of all known variable stars which has
been maintained at the Sternwarte Sonnenberg of the Zentralinstitut fur 
Astrophysik, DDR, since the late forties under the supervision of H. Huth. The
first part of the BCVS is now complete. For all variable stars with final
designation it comprises references of the literature available since the
completion of H. Schneller's and R. Prager's "Geschichte und Literatur des
Lichtwechsels der Veranderlichen Sterne" (History and bibliography of the
light-variations of variable stars) (with proper overlapping). A detailed
description of the project is to be found in Bull. d' Inf. du CDS No. 20
p. 105. We intend to supplement the BCVS at regular intervals. A similar
catalogue is planned for all not-named variables (second part of the BCVS).
The BCVS or specially selected samples can be ordered at the CDS on the
conditions outlined in Bull. d' Inf. du CDS No. 23, p. 131.

For the socialist currency area the

        Zentralinstitut fur Astrophysik-Rechenzentrum
        (Central Institute for Astrophysics-Computing Centre)
        DDR - 1502 Potsdam-Babelsberg
        Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 17a

acts as a sub-centre of the CDS and is in the position to provide data from
this catalogue and other catalogues of the CDS without hard currency charges.
We appeal to all interested workers in the field of variable stars to send
preprints and/or reprints of their papers to

              Sternwarte (Observatory)
              Bibliothek (Library)
              DDR-6400 Sonneberg

to guarantee the proper inclusion of the respective title in the BCVS.


                 W. WENZEL

         Sternwarte Sonneberg des Zentralinstituts fur
         Astrophysik der Akademie der Wissenschaften der
                  DDR