Moscow Digital Variables in Field of 66 Oph

Techniques of photographic photometry of the digital images were applied, enabling an effective search for new variable stars. Our search for new variables among 140000 stars in the 10{deg}x5{deg} northern half of the field centered at 66 Oph, photographed with the Sternberg Institute's 40-cm astrograph in 1976-1995, gave 274 new discoveries, among them: 2 probable Population II Cepheids, 81 eclipsing variables, 5 high-amplitude delta Sct stars (HADSs), 82 RR Lyr stars, 62 red irregular variables and 41 red semiregular stars, 1 slow irregular variable not red in color.

Ephemerides were determined for periodic variable stars. We detected about 30 variability suspects for follow-up CCD observations, confirmed 11 stars from the New Catalog of Suspected Variable Stars, and derived new ephemerides for 2 stars already contained in the General Catalog of Variable Stars.