VI photometry of the galactic cluster Berkeley 66'^*,**

¹ Department of Mathematical Physics, Torino University, Torino, Italy
² Torino Astronomical Observatory, Strada Osservatorio 20, I-10025 Pino Torinese, Torino, Italy
³ Department of Astronomy, Padova University, vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy

Send offprint request to: G. Carraro

Received: 16 April 1996
Accepted: 11 June 1996

Abstract

A colour magnitude diagram (CMD) extending to mag is given for 444 stars in the region of the galactic cluster Berkeley 66. The and I photometry of a nearby field is also reported. This object appears very faint, highly contaminated by foreground stars and very reddened. The apparent distance modulus and the colour excess E_V-I are guessed to be 17.5 and 1.1, respectively, with an uncertainty of at least 30%. Adopting these values the comparison of the CMD with theoretical isochrones from the Padova group provides an age around 1.0 Gyr.