NGC 6025

{{Short description|Open cluster in the constellation Triangulum Australe}}

{{Infobox open cluster

| name =

| image = File:NGC 6025 DECaPS DR2.jpg

| caption = NGC 6025 and the surrounding star field

| credit = DECaPS

| epoch = J2000

| constellation = Triangulum Australe

| ra = {{RA|16|03|07.0}}

| dec = {{DEC|−60|25|48}}

| dist_ly = {{cvt|739.0|pc|ly|order=flip|lk=on}}

| dist_pc =

| appmag_v = 5.1

| size_v = {{val|15|ul=arcminute}}

| radius_ly =

| mass_msol =

| age = {{nowrap|40 to 69 Myr}}

| notes =

| names = Caldwell 95, Collinder 296, Melotte 139, Lacaille III.10, Dunlop 304

}}

NGC 6025 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Triangulum Australe, near the northern constellation border with Norma. It was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751 during his expedition to the Cape of Good Hope. The cluster is in the Caldwell catalogue as entry number 95, and is located at a mean distance of {{convert|739.0|pc|ly|disp=out|lk=on}} from the Sun. NGC 6025 can be spotted with the naked eye, but is better viewed with a set of large binoculars. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.1 and spans an angular size of {{val|15|ul=arcminute}}.

The Trumpler class of this cluster is II3p, indicating, "a detached cluster with but little central condensation, composed of moderately bright and faint stars numbering less than 50." The brightest cluster member is MQ Triangulum Australis, with a magnitude of 7.1. This is a blue straggler with a stellar classification of B1Ve. NGC 6025 is a moderately young cluster with an age between 40 and 69 Myr. The cluster is metal-rich compared to the Sun; more so than the Hyades cluster. Seven spectroscopic binary star systems have been identified. Only one blue straggler has been found among the members, along with two Be candidates.

References

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| title=The Caldwell Objects and How to Observe Them

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| title=New General Catalog Objects: NGC 6000 - 6049

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{{cite journal

| title=Metallicities and distances of galactic clusters as determined from UBV-data. II. The metallicities and distances of 38 open clusters.

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{{cite journal

| title=Photometry of the galactic cluster NGC 6025

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{{cite journal

| title=Open clusters. II. Fundamental parameters of B stars in Collinder 223, Hogg 16, NGC 2645, NGC 3114, and NGC 6025

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{{cite journal

| title=Spectral morphology and rotation in the open cluster NGC 6025

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| journal=Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

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}}

Further reading

  • {{cite journal

| title=Photoelectric search for peculiar stars in open clusters. XV. Feinstein 1, NGC 2168, NGC 2323, NGC 2437, NGC 2547, NGC 4103, NGC 6025, NGC 6633, Stock 2, and Trumpler 2

| last1=Paunzen | first1=E. | last2=Netopil | first2=M.

| last3=Maitzen | first3=H. M. | last4=Pavlovski | first4=K.

| last5=Schnell | first5=A. | last6=Zejda | first6=M.

| display-authors=1 | journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics

| volume=564 | at=id. A42 | date=April 2014

| doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201423521 | arxiv=1403.3538

| bibcode=2014A&A...564A..42P }}

  • {{cite journal

| title=Intermediate- and wide-band photometry of NGC 6025

| last=Kilambi | first=G. C.

| journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

| volume=87 | pages=975–981 | date=December 1975

| doi=10.1086/129883 | bibcode=1975PASP...87..975K }}

  • {{cite journal

| title=The open cluster NGC 6025

| last=Feinstein | first=A.

| journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

| volume=83 | page=800 | date=December 1971

| doi=10.1086/129216 | bibcode=1971PASP...83..800F }}