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NGC 1261

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Distance from Sun: 16400 ± 190 pc Galactocentric distance: 18280 ± 170 pc V-band magnitude: 8.31 ± 0.04 Mass: 1.72 · 105 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