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.

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Hartmut Frommert

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Chris Kronberg

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Last Modification: 29 Mar 1998, 12:35 MET