Key facts
- Right ascension
- 13 46 35
- Declination
- −62 ° 55 ′ 00 ″
- Distance
- 4,200 ly (1,300 pc )
- Apparent dimensions v
- 7'
- Estimated age
- 45 million years
- Other designations
- vdBH 152, Collinder 276, Melotte 120
- Constellation
- Centaurus
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5281 is an open cluster in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751-1752 from South Africa, and catalogued it as Lacaille I.7. NGC 5281 is located three and a quarter degrees southwest of Beta Centauri. Under dark skies, it is bright enough to be spotted with naked eye, appearing as a 6th magnitude star.
Characteristics
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