NGC 6025

Open Cluster NGC 6025 (= Lacaille III.10 = Melotte 139 = Collinder 296), in Triangulum Australe

Right Ascension 16 : 03.7 (h:m)
Declination -60 : 30 (deg:m)
Distance 2.7 (kly)
Visual Brightness 5.1 (mag)
Apparent Dimension 12 (arc min)

The considerable southern open cluster NGC 6025 was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751-1752 from South Africa.



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

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