THE LOW GALACTIC LATITUDE METAL-RICH GLOBULAR-CLUSTER NGC-6440

NGC 6440 is another case of bulge high metallicity globular cluster wi th particular colour magnitude diagram properties, like those of NGC 6 553, NGC 6528 and Terzan 1. We present V and I observations of NGC 644 0, and find a reddening of E(B - V) approximate to 1.00 +/- 0.1, and a distance of d(.) approximate to 8.47 kpc. The colour magnitude diagra m morphology shows characteristics very similar to those of NGC 6553 a nd NGC 6528, in particular the horizontal branch clump almost superimp osed on the giant branch, and a curved upper giant branch, showing tha t NGC 6440 also has a metallicity close to solar. The observations are available in electronic form at the CDS (ftp 130.79.128.5).