Time, t_loss, at which escaped stars crossed the tidal boundary of the cluster as a function of the right ascension α of stars in Pal 5’s tails. The right ascension has been evaluated at the current epoch (see Fig. 1 for comparison). t_loss is zero for stars lost from the GC at the current epoch, and attends the lowest values for stars escaped from the GC at the beginning of the simulation. Each color in the plot corresponds to stars lost at different pericenter passages, while grey points correspond to stars lost between two consecutive pericenter passages.