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NGC 6025
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NGC 6025 (also Collinder 296, Caldwell 95, OCL 939 and ESO 136-SC14) is a magnitude +5.1 open star cluster located 2,700 light years away in the constellation Triangulum Australe.

The cluster was discovered by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille using a 1.27 cm (0.5 inch), 8x magnification, refractor at the Cape of Good Hope on the 5th March 1752.

Right Ascension  16h 03m 42s, Declination -60° 30' 00"

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