COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
           INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                      Number 2733

                                         Konkoly Observatory
                                         Budapest
                                         27 May 1985

                                         HU ISSN 0374 - 0676



           BEHAVIOUR OF KR AURIGAE IN THE SEASON 1984/85



  The star was measured on 28 blue-sensitive plates (ORWO-ZU21+GG13+BG12)
from 20 nights obtained with the 50/70/172 cm Schmidt camera of Sonneberg
Observatory, covering the time interval between 2 September 1984 and 12 March
1985, using the comparison star sequence given by Popova (1965). The 
observations are given in Table I.

                    Table I
J.D.           mB         J.D.            mB
244....                   244....
5946.572      13.10mag    6036.542      13.34mag
6002.529      13.22       6059.471      13.22
6003.542      13.42:      6059.490      13.20
6003.567      13.43       6083.422      13.16
6004.478      13.34       6084.325      13.37:
6004.497      13.32       6084.535      13.26
6005.585      13.12       6093.479      13.22
6005.608      13.14       6104.276      13.36
6006.546      13.42       6108.318      13.12
6006.570      13.27       6109.306      13.20
6031.656      13.38       6110.301      13.15
6034.418      13.32       6113.304      13.30
6034.437      13.50       6116.298      13.68
6036.524      13.52       6137.303      14.08


   It can be seen from Figure 1 that most of the time KR Aur is in its
maximum light between mB= 13.1m    and mB = 13.5m ; and slow temporal light
fluctuations are superimposed. At the end of the series a decrease in the
brightness from mB= 13.3mag to mB = 14.08mag is indicated.


                            [FIGURE 1]



                             W. GOTZ

                      Akademie der Wissenschaften
                      der DDR, Zentralinstitut fur
                      Astrophysik, Sternwarte Sonneberg
                      DDR





Reference:
Popova, M., 1965, Peremennye Zvezdy, 15, 534. [BIBCODE 1965PZ.....15..534P ]