Volume 45 number 1 (2017)
We describe the VESPA project made at IAU station 565, Astronomical Observatory in Bassano Bresciano (BS), Italy. It is one photometric survey of the northern hemisphere which has the aim of discovering and investigating new variable stars. In the first two years of activity we have discovered 100 new variable stars in the course of observations carried out from August 2014 to September 2016. The newly discovered stars comprise 80 eclipsing binary stars (66 of them classified as W Ursae Majoris, 11 as beta Lyrae, and 3 beta Persei), one rotating (ROT), one ellipsoidal variable (ELL), and 18 pulsating variables (5 of them classified as RRAB, 7 RRC, 3 HADS, 2 delta Scuti and one Cepheid). Variability classification is based on the properties of the optical light curves that we obtained using our 255 mm F/4.7 Newton robotic telescope.