A&A Supplement series, Vol. 127, February I 1998, 471-477
Received March 19; accepted June 9, 1997
S. Ortolani 
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E. Bica
- B. Barbuy
Università di Padova, Dept. di Astronomia, Vicolo
dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Dept. de Astronomia,
CP 15051, Porto Alegre 91500-970, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, CP 9638, São Paulo 01065-970, Brazil
We present V, I photometry of the bulge globular clusters NGC 6380
and Terzan 12,
using the ESO NTT telescope. For the first time
colour-magnitude diagrams are obtained for these clusters, allowing
us to derive reliable cluster parameters. From the colour-magnitude
diagram morphology
both clusters result to be metal-rich.
For NGC 6380
we estimate 
, a
reddening of
E(B-V) = 1.07 and a distance
. For Terzan 12
we obtain , E(B-V) = 2.06
and 
.
keywords: globular clusters: NGC 6380, Terzan 12 -- HR diagram