Dear colleagues! I would like to send you observations of a new variable star (BeV40), 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 BeV40 071334.1 +101513 (J2000) 11.1 11.6(CCD) comments: BeV40: GSC 766 1248 Comparison star was for all measurements GSC 766 142 (11.8 mag), which was checked to be constant. Data analysis was made by Chris Lloyd, UK. His comment: GSC 766.1248 has a very strong series of frequencies with the best periods 0.77693 and 0.43726 days. I think this one may turn out to be an RR Lyrae variable. object YYMMDD(UT) mag (CCD) code BeV40 000111.9736 11.24 BRH.BAV BeV40 000124.9507 11.13 BRH.BAV BeV40 000125.9806 11.28 BRH.BAV BeV40 000126.9778 11.63 BRH.BAV BeV40 000127.9493 11.33 BRH.BAV BeV40 000210.9556 11.29 BRH.BAV Regards, Klaus Bernhard Klaus Bernhard Kafkaweg 5 A-4030 LINZ AUSTRIA e-mail: klaus.bernhard@vpn.at