COMMISSIONS 27 AND 42 OF THE IAU
             INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                          Number 4004


                                             Konkoly Observatory
                                             Budapest
                                             18 March 1994

                                             HU ISSN 0374 - 0676


                       V447 Cas = NSV 269


   During my work on PICA project (= Precise Identification and Coordinate 
Adjustment of about 7000 variables) I have found that V447 Cas is identical with
NSV 269.
   V447 Cas = Wr 176 was discovered by Weber (1968). His paper contains basic 
information together with finding chart. Although poorly studied, this star has
received its final designation in 1970 (Kukarkin et al., 1970).
   NSV 269 = S 10151 was discovered by Hoffmeister (1967a) in the same time
as Wr 176. Fortunately finding chart for this star was also published (Hoffmeister,
1967b). No final designation was accepted for this star and it was included into New
Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars (Kholopov et al., 1982).
   While working on field variable stars around NZ Cas I have noticed that both
above mentioned charts refer probably to the same star. Additional check has 
confirmed this, showing also the reported coordinates of both stars being somewhat off
the star's real position. As this star is identical with GSC 3667.0737 the correct 
coordinates were easily found (see Table 1). Finding chart (see Figure 1) was adapted
from Atlas Stellarum (Vehrenberg, 1970).
   Following cross-identifications are valid : V447 Cas = Wr 176 = S 10151 =
 = GSC 3667.0737





Table 1: Comparative table of original data for NSV 269, GSC 3667.0737 and
V447 Cas. Data concerning NSV 269 are from NSV, data for V447 Cas are from
GCVS and data for GSC 3667.0737 are from GSC.

Name          Position (B1950)    Position   (J2000)     Type  Max    Min  Phot.
              h  m  s     d  '    h  m  s     d   '   "        mag    mag system
NSV 269       00 40 57   +59 35   00 43 52    +59 51      LB   12.5   13       p
V447 Cas      00 41 13   +59 33   00 44 08    +59 40      LB   12.5   14.0     p
GSC 3667.0737                     00 43 43.81 +59 50 12.9       9.8            J


                          [FIGURE 1]

 Finding chart for V447 Cas = NSV 269. The chart covers about 40' x 30'
 with north up. Variable is marked with two short lines.



                                    Jan Manek
                               Stefanik Observatory
                                    Petrin 205
                                  118 46 Praha 1
                                  Czech Republic
                          e-mail: observ@earn.cvut.cz


References:
Guide Star Catalogue v1.1: 1992, The Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore,
   Maryland, USA. On CD-ROM.
Hoffmeister, C.: 1967a, MVS 4, Heft 3, 39
Hoffmeister, C.: 1967b, AN 290, Heft 1/2, 43 [BIBCODE 1967AN....290...43H ]
Kholopov, P.N.: 1982, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, Nauka, Moscow [BIBCODE 1982ncss.book.....K ]
Kholopov, P.V.: 1985, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4th ed., Nauka, Moscow
Kukarkin. B.V., Kholopov, P.N., Perova, N.B.: 1970, IBVS 480
Vehrenberg, H.: Atlas Stellarum 1950.0, Treugesell Verlag KG; Dusseldorf
Weber, R.: 1968, IBVS 287