NGC 6242

Open Cluster NGC 6242 (= Lacaille I.4 = Dunlop 520 = Melotte 155 = Collinder 317), type 'f', in Scorpius

Right Ascension 16 : 55.6 (h:m)
Declination -39 : 30 (deg:m)
Distance 3.9 (kly)
Visual Brightness 6.4 (mag)
Apparent Dimension 9 (arc min)

The southern open cluster NGC 6242 was discovered by Abbe Lacaille during his 1751-1752 journey to South Africa.


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

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Last Modification: 8 Mar 1998, 22:00 MET