Following suspected variable was found durning my scan of Amateur FITS Archive: AFASV_M31_242 AFASV_M31_242 amplitude=0.36 mag R. A. (2000) Decl. image 13.47 0 41 38.048 + 41 12 37.81 so1 13.11 0 41 38.358 + 41 12 35.73 ugm NOTE Star very faint in Berkhuijsen and USNO A2.0 (~17 mag). images: so1: Mauro Facchini, Obsservatorio di Cavezzo, 0.20- m reflector f2.8, CCD Starlight HX516 date: 26/06/00 time: 00:15:26 UT ugm: Mauro Facchini, Obsservatorio di Cavezzo, 0.13- m reflector f4, CCD Starlight HX516 date: 06/09/00 time: 00:40:00 UT IDS FROM VIZIER: GSC: dif: 0.0191 RA: 00 41 37.99 Decl: +41 12 38.7 GSCid: 0280102067 mag: 13.39+/-0.44 USNO A2.0: dif: 0.0115 RA: 00 41 38.052 Decl: +41 12 38.49 USNOid: 1275-00418403 Bmag: 17.3 Rmag: 16.2 epoch: 1953.773 NOTE: very faint!!! Brightest stars in the field of M31 (Berkhuijsen+ 1988): dif: 0.2081 RA: 00 41 37.77 Decl: +41 12 25.7 seq: 3469 Vmag: 17.26+/-0.24 BVRI CCD photometry in the field of M 31 (Magnier+ 1992): dif: 0.0226 RA: 00 41 37.95 Decl: +41 12 38.5 seq: 233343 Bmag: 14.299+/-0.011 Vmag: 13.444+/-0.017 2MASS: dif: 0.0212 RA: 00 41 37.98 Decl: +41 12 38.8 Jmag: 11.790+/-0.036 Hmag: 11.304+/-0.033 Kmag: 11.238+/-0.034 M 31 reference catalog (Shokin+ 1998): dif: 0.0143 RA: 00 41 37.99 Decl: +41 12 38.3 Bmag: 14.50 Probably ROSAT source: 2RXP J004136.4+411219 = RX J0041.6+4112 dif: 0.439 RA: 00 41 36.4 Decl: +41 12 19 NOTE: not far from IRAS point source (via IRAS Seredipitous Survey Catalog, IPAC 1986): IRAS 00388+4056 dif: 1.047 RA: 00 41 32.5 Decl: +41 12 45 also not far is (GCVS): M31 V0645 dif: 0.6613 RA: 00 41 35.54 Decl: +41 12 10.1 type: S: magmax: 22.00 Best regards, Maciej Reszelski