NGC 6496

Distance from Sun: 9640 ± 150 pc
Galactocentric distance: 2810 ± 90 pc
V-band magnitude: 8.65 ± 0.09
Mass: 7.4 · 104 M
M/L ratio: 1.8 ± 0.2 M/L
Half-mass radius: 7.01 pc
Power-law MF slope: α = -0.25 ± 0.16


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