  The RGU-photographic investigation of an intermediate latitude field in the
direction to the Galactic center is presented. 164 extra-galactic objects,
identified by comparison of Minnesota and Basel charts, are excluded from the
program. Also, a region with size 0.104 square-degrees, contaminated by cluster
(M5) stars and affected by background light of the bright star HD 136202 is
omitted. Contrary to previous investigations, a reddening of $E(B-V)=0.046$,
corresponding to E(G-R)=0.07 mag is adopted. The separation of dwarfs and
evolved stars is carried out by an empirical method, already applied in some of
our works. A new calibration for the metallicity determination is used for
dwarfs, while the absolute magnitude determination for stars of all categories
is performed using the procedures given in the literature. There is good
agreement between the observed logarithmic space density histograms and the
galactic model gradients. Also, the local luminosity function agrees with
Gliese's (1969) and Hipparcos' (Jahreiss & Wielen 1997) luminosity functions,
for stars with $2<M(G)\leq8$ mag. For giants, we obtained two different local
space densities from comparison with two Galactic models, i.e. $D^{*}(0)=6.63$,
close to that of Gliese (1969), and $D^{*}(0)=6.79$. A metallicity gradient,
$d[Fe/H]/dz= -0.20$ dex/kpc, is detected for dwarfs (only) with absolute
magnitudes $4<M(G)\leq6$, corresponding to a spectral type interval F5-K0.
