NGC 2298

Distance from Sun: 9830 ± 170 pc
Galactocentric distance: 15070 ± 140 pc
V-band magnitude: 9.06 ± 0.03
Mass: 5.0 · 104 M
M/L ratio: 1.7 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 3.20 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = 0.17 ± 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