The open cluster Havlen-Moffat No. 1 revisited

A deep CCD UBVRI photometric survey combined with UBVRI polarimetric observ ations of 21 bright stars was carried out in the region of the open cluster Havlen-Moffat No. 1. Our data reveal that the extinction law in this clust er is variable and that six cluster stars show very high polarisation value s (>4%), probably because of the presence of a nearby small dust cloud. The cluster is at a distance of d = 3300 pc, it is 2-4 Myr old and the initial mass function of its most massive stars ( M > 3 M-.) has a at slope of x a pproximate to 0.7. As an additional result, it was possible to reconcile th e absolute magnitudes of the two WN7-type members using the R-values valid in the regions where they are located.