Our goal in this paper is to study stars and molecular gas in the direction of IRAS 06145+1455 (WB89-789). The kinematic distance of the associated molecular cloud is 11.9kpc. With a galactocentric distance of ~20.2kpc, this object is at the edge of the (molecular) disk of the Galaxy. We use near-IR (J, H, K), molecular line-, and dust continuum observations.