  We report the spectroscopic and photometric monitoring of a sample of 530
candidate AGB stars in a 5 degrees field, selected from the IPHAS catalog:
historic light curves were derived from Asiago IR plates taken in the years
1965 -1984. We found 10 Miras, 5 stars with long term trends, 3 semiregular and
3 irregular. Spectral types from CCD slit spectra gave 8 M-type, 7 C-type and 6
S-type stars. In the color-color plots made from IPHAS and 2MASS catalogs, the
S-type and M-type stars occupy the same regions, while C-type stars are well
separated. All C-type stars with IR excess showed long term trends in their
light curve. Distances of the Mira stars, estimated from their periods and K
magnitudes, gave a median value of 4.9 kpc with a large spread. A comparison
with astrometric parallaxes from Gaia DR2 is briefly discussed.
