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NGC 5946

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Distance from Sun: 9640 ± 510 pc Galactocentric distance: 5200 ± 260 pc V-band magnitude: 9.49 ± 0.08 Mass: 1.1 · 105 M☉ M/L ratio: 1.9 ± 0.3 M☉/L☉ Half-mass radius: 2.83 pc Power-law MF slope: α = -0.65 ± 0.16

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