NGC 6266 (M 62)

Distance from Sun: 6030 ± 90 pc
Galactocentric distance: 2460 ± 70 pc
V-band magnitude: 6.60 ± 0.06
Mass: 5.81 · 105 M
M/L ratio: 2.1 ± 0.1 M/L
Half-mass radius: 2.91 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -1.14 ± 0.19


Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive


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