NGC 6229

Distance from Sun: 30110 ± 470 pc
Galactocentric distance: 29450 ± 440 pc
V-band magnitude: 9.33 ± 0.05
Mass: 2 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 1.7 ± 0.6 M/L
Half-mass radius: 4.80 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -1.47 ± 0.48


Image Credit: PanSTARRS DR1, PS1 Science Consortium


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