New Takamizawa variable (TmzV861) Kesao Takamizawa (Nagano, Japan) reports the discovery of a new variable star (TmzV861). TmzV861 = GSC3307.1656 023146.76 +522256.2 (2000.0) 11.32 1 N = USNO1350.02500346 023146.713 +522255.90 (2000.0) 99.9 12.7 = 2MASS 023146.754 +522255.13 (2000.0) 10.560 10.187 8.532 = 2MASS 023146.926 +522301.34 (2000.0) 9.833 7.574 5.797 = IRAS02283+5209 022820.7 +520944 (1950.0) F12=5.25 F25=1.58 F60=0.52L F100=4.78L VAR=12 LRS=-1 possibly I: oxygen-rich non-variable star without circumstellar shell or VII: variable star with more evolved C-rich circumstellar shell = 023146.9 +522258 (2000.0) IRAS02283+5209 5.298 1.547 0.534L 4.617L 12% = 023146.9 +522258 (2000.0) SSC02283+5209 5.298 1.547 0.534L 4.617L = 023147.0 +522302 (2000.0) CS363 - 11.8: 9.6 - Takamizawa's comment: The star may be a semiregular variable with a range of 11.0-11.8p. Photographic magnitude estimates by VSOLJ members object YYYYMMDD(UT) mag code TmzV861 19950127.424 112p Tmz.VSOLJ TmzV861 19960922.666 110p Tmz.VSOLJ TmzV861 19970613.728 115p Tmz.VSOLJ TmzV861 19980116.413 118p Tmz.VSOLJ TmzV861 19980629.701 114p Tmz.VSOLJ TmzV861 19991128.448 113p Tmz.VSOLJ TmzV861 20000902.678 116p Tmz.VSOLJ TmzV861 20011023.605 115p Tmz.VSOLJ Observer's code: Tmz: K.Takamizawa (Saku-machi,Nagano,Japan) SASS (Saku All Sky Survey) Inst.: 10cmR F4 twin patrol cameras and 25cm F2.8 Baker-Schmidt camera T-Max400 120 Comparison stars mag.:GSC Relayed from Kesao Takamizawa <k-takamizawa@nifty.ne.jp>