Dear colleagues! I would like to send you observations of a new variable star (BeV17), which I have discovered in a systematic CCD-based search for new variables. In each observing run typically 400 images are taken of several survey fields. The frames are processed automatically. Instruments: CCD-camera:Starlight Xpress SX (unfiltered) Telescope: Celestron-8 (20 cm Schmidt-Cassegrain) New variable star: new BeV17 192436.4 N063127 (J2000) 12.3 12.7 (CCD) comments: BeV17: GSC 477 3880 Comparison star was for all measurements GSC 477 3656 (12.1 mag), which was checked to be constant. GSC 477 3880 seems to be a short-period variable, type and period still unknown. object YYMMDD(UT) mag (CCD) code BeV17 990718.0090 12.38 BRH.BAV BeV17 990719.0090 12.69 BRH.BAV BeV17 990720.0042 12.50 BRH.BAV BeV17 990727.0000 12.62 BRH.BAV BeV17 990730.9889 12.40 BRH.BAV BeV17 990731.9854 12.30 BRH.BAV BeV17 990806.9757 12.62 BRH.BAV Regards, Klaus Bernhard Klaus Bernhard Kafkaweg 5 A-4030 LINZ AUSTRIA e-mail: klaus.bernhard@vpn.at