THE GLOBULAR-CLUSTER NGC-6652

We have carried out BVRI and Gunn z CCD photometry for the globular cl uster NGC6652 which had no previous colour magnitude study. This clust er, which is projected close to the bulge minor axis at almost-equal-t o 11 from the center, has a CMD morphology suggesting a moderately hig h metallicity of [Fe/H] almost-equal-to -0.9. The Horizontal Branch is red with the possibility of a few members in the RR Lyrae gap. The cl uster appears to have several blue stragglers. We derive a reddening o f E(B-V) = 0. 10 +/- 0.02 and a distance of d. = 9.3 Kpc. The turnoff is reached and we obtain DELTAV(TO-HB) = 3.35 +/- 0.16 suggesting that it is slightly younger than the average age of Galactic globular clus ters.