COMMISSIONS 27 AND 42 OF THE IAU
              INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                           Number 4017

                                                Konkoly Observatory
                                                Budapest
                                                22 April 1994

                                                HU ISSN 0374 - 0676

                        IX And = NSV 372


 During my work on PICA project (Precise Identification and Coordinate 
Adjustment of about 7000 variables) I have found that IX And is identical with 
NSV 372.

 IX And = P 2495 = DO 8612(M4) = CSV 100080 = S 9500 was suspected to be
variable by Nijland (1936). Variability of this star was independently rediscovered by
Hoffmeister (1966) and a finding chart was also published (Hoffmeister, 1967). 
Additional information has appeared in 1975 (Meinunger, 1975). The star has 
received its final designation in 1977 (Kukarkin et al., 1977).
 NSV 372 = CSV 100082 was suspected to be variable by Martynov (1938) being
used as comparison *t for WZ And. No final designation was accepted for this star
and it was included into Catalogue of Suspected Variable stars (Kukarkin 
et al., 1951).
Meinunger (1975) has investigated this star and found it to be constant (as we will see
later he was in fact estimating comp. *p of Martynov (1938) which is constant). Later
it was also included in the New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars (Kholopov et
al., 1982). In both catalogues this star is believed to be non-variable. According to
NSV no chart was published for this star (and for nearby NSV 371 = comp.*n too).

 While working on field variable stars around WZ And I have noticed that on the
chart recommended for WZ And by GCVS (Martynov,1938) are also marked all used
comparison stars, including *t. I was amazed because *t, according to coordinates
should be on different place. When comparing data in Table 3 (page 13) of Martynov
(giving the relative coordinates and magnitudes of all comparison stars) to the chart,
I have found that comp. *p and *t are interchanged. But which source is correct?
The table or the chart? Fortunately from Table 2 (page 13) of Martynov (giving data
on linking comp. stars to photometric standards) is evident that the chart is correct
and the error is in Table 3 - the line with relative coordinates and final magnitude,
in the first column stating to refer to *p refers in fact to *t and vice versa. When
this was clear it was easy to identify NSV 372 as IX And.

                                 [FIGURE 1]

  Figure 1: Left: the finding chart for WZ And (cross) with comparison stars
  used by Martynov (1938). Right: the same region adopted from Atlas Stellarum
  (Vehrenberg, 1970) covering about 45' x 40' with north up. The variables
  WZ And, NSV 371 (comp. *n) and IX And = NSV 372 (comp. *t) are marked on
  this chart.


Name	      Position (B1950) 	Position (J2000)            Type   Max   Min Phot.
	      h m s	   d  '       h m s       d  '             mag   mag system   

NSV 372       00 59 03    +37 52.1    01 01 50    +38 08.2    -    11.7        p
IX And        00 58 50    +37 38.0    01 01 37    +37 54.1    Lb   12.9  14.2  p
GSC 2799.1599 00 58 53.36 +37 37 39.1 01 01 40.58 +37 53 46.5      10.89       1

Table 1: Comparative table of original data for NSV 372, GSC 2799.1599 and IX And.
Data concerning NSV 372 are from NSV, data for IX And are from GCVS and data
for GSC 2799.1599 are from GSC. Photometric system code 1 for GSC represents
the Kodak IIa-D plate with W12 filter. Coordinates printed in italics were computed
from the above stated data sources.

  The reported coordinates for IX And were found to be somewhat off the star's
real position. As this star is identical with GSC 2799.1599 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 : IX And = P 2495 = DO 8612(M4) =
CSV 100080 = CSV 100082 = S 9500 = NSV 372.


                                   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.: 1966, Mitteilungen uber Veranderliche Sterne 3, Heft 6, 172
 Hoffmeister, C.: 1967, Astronomische Nachrichten 289, Heft 5, 205 [BIBCODE 1967AN....289..205H ]
 Kholopov, P.N., et al.: 1982, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, Nauka, Moscow [BIBCODE 1982ncss.book.....K ]
 Kholopov, P.N., et al.: 1985, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4th ed., Nauka, Moscow
 Kukarkin, B.V., et al.: 1951, Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, Moscow [BIBCODE 1951CSV...C......0K ]
 Kukarkin, B.V., et al.: 1977, IBVS 1248
 Martynov, D.Ya.: 1938, Izvestiya Astronomicheskoj Engelgartovskoj Observatorii No 20
 Meinunger, L.: 1975, Mitteilungen uber Veranderliche Sterne 7, Heft 1, 1 [BIBCODE 1975MitVS...7....1M ]
 Nijland, A.A.: 1936, Astronomische Nachrichten 259, 69 [BIBCODE 1936AN....259...69N ]
 Vehrenberg, H.: 1970, Atlas Stellarum 1950.0, Treugesell Verlag KG, Dusseldorf [BIBCODE 1970asps.book.....V ]