It was discovered by Abbe Lacaille in 1751 during his expedition to the Cape of Good Hope.

[4][5] The cluster is in the Caldwell catalogue as entry number 95,[2] and is located at a mean distance of 2,410 ly from the Sun.

[1] NGC 6025 can be spotted with the naked eye,[6] but is better viewed with a set of large binoculars.

[2] It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.1 and spans an angular size of 15′.

"[7] The brightest cluster member is MQ Triangulum Australis, with a magnitude of 7.1.