Description
CCD photometry on the UBV and Washington systems, is presented for Be32, a so far unstudied rich open cluster located in the Galactic anticentre. Morphology of cluster and colour-magnitude diagram indicates that it is an old object with age close to ages of NGC 188 and NGC 2243 (about 6Gyr on the scale of VandenBerg isochrones). The cluster reddening is E(B-V)=0.16 and the estimated metallicity is [Fe/H]=-0.37+/-0.05. The apparent distance modulus is between 12.8 and 13.1.
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