COMMISSION 27 OF THE I. A. U.
          INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                      Number 2833

                                        Konkoly Observatory
                                        Budapest
                                        11 December 1985

                                        HU ISSN 0374 - 0676





                  SUPERMINIMUM OF MV LYRAE




  As a continuation of our paper of 1983 (W. Wenzel and B. Fuhrmann,
Mitteil. Verand. Sterne Sonneberg, 9, p. 175) I report here on subsequent
observations of the cataclysmic binary MV Lyr. On 110 plates of the Sonneberg
four-lens astrographs (40/190 cm and 40/160 cm) taken mainly by G.A. Richter,
G. Hacke and the author between 1983 July 2 and 1985 Nov. 17 the star varied
irregularly from 15.8m to 17.3m pg (system of paper cited). The star was
definitely brighter, 15.2m, only in one occasion (1985 Oct. 13.8 UT). The
variable was never seen on the sky patrol plates taken by H. Huth since the
onset of the deep minimum in 1979, with the exception of a possible faint
trace at the date just mentioned.




                              B. FUHRMANN
                          Sternwarte Sonneberg
                       Zentralinstitut fur Astrophysik
                       der Akademie der Wissenschaften
                                der DDR