J/A+A/300/726 BH 176 and AM-2 (Ortolani+, 1995) ================================================================================ BH 176 and AM-2: globular or open clusters ? ORTOLANI S., BICA E., BARBUY B. =1995A&A...300..726O (SIMBAD/NED BibCode) ================================================================================ Keywords: HR diagram - globular clusters: BH 176 - open clusters: AM-2 Description: We have obtained VI photometry for two low Galactic latitude star clusters: BH 176 and AM-2, using the 2.2m and the 3.5m NTT telescopes at ESO. Their VI colour-magnitude diagrams reveal that: BH 176 may be a globular cluster, or a border line object between a globular cluster and a disk cluster, showing a red horizontal branch and an extended red giant branch. We estimate E(B-V)=0.77 and d_{sun}_=13.4kpc. AM-2 appears to be an intermediate age open cluster, for which a reddening E(B-V)=0.44 and d_{sun}_=12.4kpc are estimated. It is located in the outer regions of the Galactic disk. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table2 53 2086 AM-2 coordinates, V magnitude and V-I colour table3 53 11981 BH 176 coordinates, V magnitude and V-I colour -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2 table3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5- 9 I5 --- No Star number 14- 20 F7.2 pix X X coordinate 25- 31 F7.2 pix Y Y coordinate 37- 42 F6.3 mag Vmag V magnitude 49- 53 F5.3 mag V-I (V-I) colour -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ (End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 06-Jan-1995