Myung Gyoon Lee
Astronomy Program, SEES, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742,
Korea
Abstract. I present an overview of recent progress in the study of star clusters in nearby late-type galaxies. Colour-magnitude diagrams of star clusters in several nearby spiral galaxies show some differences in the mean colour of the globular clusters and in the magnitude of the brightest clusters. Recent wide field CCD survey of star clusters in M33 found that the star cluster system of M33 is dominated by blue clusters, and that the red clusters are more dispersed in a wider region than bluer clusters. Age distribution of the clusters in the interacting system M51 shows that a significant number of clusters in M51 were probably formed during the interaction of NGC 5194 and NGC 5195. About 50 faint fuzzy clusters are found in NGC 5195, SB0. Recent wide field CCD survey of star clusters in NGC 6822 discovered a new kind of extended clusters in the remote halo of NGC 6822. These new clusters in NGC 6822 share several common features with the faint fuzzy clusters found in the interacting SB0 galaxies, providing an important clue to understanding the origin of extended clusters.
Keywords: star clusters: general -- galaxies: dwarf, spiral -- galaxies:individual (M31, M33, M51, M81, M101, NGC 6822, NGC 6946)