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NGC 5024 (M 53)

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Distance from Sun: 18500 ± 180 pc Galactocentric distance: 19000 ± 160 pc V-band magnitude: 7.70 ± 0.04 Mass: 5.02 · 105 M☉ M/L ratio: 1.9 ± 0.1 M☉/L☉ Half-mass radius: 10.03 pc Power-law MF slope: α = -1.20 ± 0.11

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