Meridional plane RC star counts in bins of 0.5 kpc in R and 0.1 kpc in z (as indicated by the box in the upper right corner). The white contours indicate where the number of RC stars in the bins have dropped to 200, 100, and 50 from inner to outer contours respectively. The black symbol marks the position of the Sun. This figure is based on the default realization in which the absolute magnitudes of all RC stars are set to mag.