COMMISSION 27 OF THE I.A.U.
                   INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                               Number 2909

                                                         Konkoly Observatory
                                                         Budapest
                                                         23 June 1986

                                                         HU ISSN 0374 - 0676


          ONCE AGAIN: ON THE IDENTITY OF AK CANIS MINORIS

In this Bulletin Robb et al. (1986) reported on difficulties in locating
AK CMi. Therefore I would like to direct the attention of the readers to the
recent paper of Fuhrmann (1984) where AK CMi has been comprehensively treated.
Fuhrmann succeeded in gathering 113 minima of several authors and in improving 
the then existing elements: he also gave a chart and pointed to the fact
that obviously some of the observed minima are spurious. It is not very 
probable, however, that this fact can be explained by wrong identification of 
the star by the authors quoted by Fuhrmann. Indeed, the map given by the Brno
observers (Pokorny, 1975), which is also cited in the Moscow GCVS (Kholopov
et al., 1985), shows the right star. The variability has been independently
discovered by Strohmeier et al. (1957). They already were aware of the identity 
of their star with the object announced by Hoffmeister (1934) and designated 
by him as BD +4d1778 and by the Moscow catalogue compilers as CSV 1102.
In the NSV Catalogue (Kukarkin et al., 1982) I cannot find an object numbered
102 559 as given by Robb et al. (1986).


                              W. WENZEL
                           Sternwarte Sonneberg
                     Zentralinstitut fur Astrophysik
                   Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR



References:

Fuhrmann, B., 1984, Mitt, Veranderliche Sterne 10, 96. [BIBCODE 1984MitVS..10...96F ]
Hoffmeister, C., 1934, Astron. Nachr. 253, 197. [BIBCODE 1934AN....253..195H ]
Kholopov, P.N., et al., 1985, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4th edition
Kukarkin, B.V., et al., 1982, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars [BIBCODE 1982ncsv.book.....K ]
Pokorny, Z., 1975, Contrib. Copernicus Obs. Brno, no. 18.
Robb, R.M., Lowe, T.B., Moffatt, J.D., Balam, D.D. 1986, IBVS, No. 2888.
Strohmeier, W. Kippenhahn, R., Geyer, E., 1957, Bamberg Kl. Veroff., No. 18, 2.