The metal-rich globular clusters of the Milky Way

We present new (V,V-I)-photometry of the metal-rich globular clusters NGC 5 927, 6316, 6342, 6441 and 6760. The clusters show differential reddening up to delta EV-I = 0.32 mag, for which the CMDs are corrected via extinction maps. There are hints of a variation in the extinction law. Two different w ays to determine the parameters metallicity, reddening and distance lead to consistent results. The metallicities of the clusters range between -0.7 l ess than or equal to [M/H] less than or equal to 0.0 dex and the absolute r eddening between 0.43 less than or equal to EV-I less than or equal to 0.76 mag. Taking the differential reddening into account leads to slightly incr eased distances. From the resulting parameters we conclude that the usual h alo-disk-distinction in the system of globular clusters seems questionable.