NGC 1261
Distance from Sun:
16400 ± 190 pc
Galactocentric distance:
18280 ± 170 pc
V-band magnitude:
8.31 ± 0.04
Mass:
1.72 · 10
5
M
☉
M/L ratio:
1.5 ± 0.1 M
☉
/L
☉
Half-mass radius:
4.86 pc
Power-law MF slope:
α = -0.61 ± 0.13
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble
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