COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
          INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                       Number 2577

                                        Konkoly Observatory
                                        Budapest
                                        30 August 1984

                                        HU ISSN 0374 - 0676


         V 1050 Aql NOT OF U GEMINORUM BUT OF MIRA TYPE

  The following notes exist in the literature on this variable star
(= S 8194):
C. Hoffmeister, Astron. Nachr., 288, 49 (1965) - discovery, U Gem type,
         maxima comparatively numerous;
M. Petit, Ciel et Terre, 86, 229 (1970) - U Gem type?, cycle length > 80d;
N. Vogt and F.M. Bateson, ESO Scient. Prepr. 161 (1981) - no additional
         confirmation, map.
When estimating the star on Sonneberg astrographic plates centered at gamma Aql
I noticed that it is a Mira variable with a period of about 291 days; 
elements and light curve will be published in Mitt. Verand. Sterne. On the
charts of the POSS and therefore on Vogt's and Bateson's map, near the position
of the variable three stars can be seen, which are not separated on our
plates. The south-preceding star of this triple is a red and should be the
Mira variable. Whether the bluish star marked by Vogt and Bateson at the
triple's centre as being V 1050 Aql is also variable cannot be proved by our
plates.


                               H. GESSNER

                           Sternwarte Sonneberg
                      Zentralinstitut fur Astrophysik
                      der Akademie der Wissenschaften
                                 der DDR