Key facts
- Right ascension
- 16 25 36
- Declination
- −40 ° 40 ′ 00 ″
- Distance
- 1,860 ly (512 pc)
- Apparent dimensions v
- 29′
- Other designations
- Caldwell 75, Cr 301, Mel 145, Raab 111, ESO 331-SC003, OCL 990, Lund 701, C 1622-405, Lacaille I.8, Dunlop 514
- Constellation
- Scorpius
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Distance from Earth
- 470
- Image
- NGC 6124.jpg
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- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 2403
- Commons category
- NGC 6124
- discoverer or inventor
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
- time of discovery or invention
- 1751-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 5.8
- Commons gallery
- NGC 6124
- right ascension
- 246.3333
- declination
- -40.6533
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- -21.1
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -1.80
- declination component of proper motion
- -3.63
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Encyclopedic overview
Map showing the location of NGC 6124 NGC 6124 (also known as Caldwell 75) is an open cluster located 1,860 light years away in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751 during his South African tour.
The cluster is large and bright, with about 125 stars visible.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6124” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.