At Pennsylvania’s Flower and Cook Observatory, instrumentation has been developed to measure simultaneously the four Stokes parameters of the filtered radiation field from a celestial source. The instrumental Q/U/V-parameters have been found to be very small and well-behaved. Thus far, the program has concentrated on cool bright giants and supergiants and on hot, evolving close binaries. A single season’s investigation of Alp Ori has already been reported (Holenstein 1987) and the present paper is a summary of current results for the cool, evolved program stars.

For Psi1 Aur, V CVn, 6 Gem, 72 Leo and 119 Tau no V-signal at the level of 3σhas been detected from data from the 1986-1987 season. At the level of 0.0n%, unambiguous and variable V-signals have been detected for VV Cep, Mu Cep, Alp Her, Alp Ori, Bet Peg, and Alp Sco.