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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2017
We report here an observational study on the IR properties of members of the rich clusters of galaxies: Abell 194, Perseus and Hercules. Following the precepts described in previous papers concerning the manifold of the early-type galaxies from IR photometry for the Coma (Recillas-Cruz et al. 1990) and Virgo (Recillas-Cruz et al. 1991) cluster members; interstellar reddening and redshift corrections for Abell 194, Perseus and Hercules were estimated. Interstellar reddening corrections for Abell 194 and Hercules galaxy members were found to be small, except for Perseus cluster galaxies where extinction values are somewhat larger. IR redshift K-corrections were estimated from linear relations with z for (J-H), (H-K) and K (Persson et al. 1979). Corrected magnitudes and colors were then used to construct (J-H) vs. (H-K) diagrams for elliptical and S0 galaxies and color-magnitude diagrams (J-H), (H-K), (J-K), (B-K) and (V-K) vs. K.