NGC 6256

Distance from Sun: 7240 ± 290 pc
Galactocentric distance: 1940 ± 110 pc
V-band magnitude: 10.56 ± 0.11
Mass: 1.11 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 1.9 ± 0.2 M/L
Half-mass radius: 4.21 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -1.12 ± 0.19


Image Credit: DECaM Plane Survey / NOAO


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