NGC 5281

Open Cluster NGC 5281 (= Lacaille I.7 = Dunlop 273 = Melotte 120 = Collinder 276), in Centaurus

Right Ascension 13 : 46.6 (h:m)
Declination -62 : 54 (deg:m)
Distance 4.2 (kly)
Visual Brightness 5.9 (mag)
Apparent Dimension 5 (arc min)

Southern open cluster NGC 5281 was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751-1752.

Hartmut Frommert (spider@seds.org)
Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

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Last Modification: 22 Mar 1998, 21:35 MET