NGC 6254 (M 10)

Distance from Sun: 5070 ± 60 pc
Galactocentric distance: 4350 ± 30 pc
V-band magnitude: 6.61 ± 0.04
Mass: 1.89 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 1.7 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 4.75 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -0.60 ± 0.13


Image Credit: Bernhard Hubl, http://www.astrophoton.com/


Observations

Cluster distance Proper motion Radial velocity
Orbit over the last 500 Myr
Velocity dispersion profile Rotation Color magnitude diagram
HST photometry Mass function MF slope

N-body Fits

Surface density Proper motions Radial velocities
Remnant fraction Mass-to-light ratio