It is a bright but loose cluster of intermediate age located approximately 2,300 light years away from Earth.

magnitude; a very coarse cluster" and added it to General Catalogue as No.

In the New General Catalogue it is described as "very large, very little concentrated, stars 8th magnitude and fainter".

[5] NGC 5460 is a loose open cluster, of Trumpler type II3m.

The tidal radius of the cluster is 4.1 - 8.2 parsecs (13 - 26 light years) and represents the average outer limit of NGC 5460, beyond which a star is unlikely to remain gravitationally bound to the cluster core.