Isophote plot derived from the HST F625W image of NGC 1277 with 0.5 mag arcsec⁻² intervals (black contours). The corresponding MGE model isophotes are indicated in red. The blue ellipse denotes the extent of the region that was used to produce the MGE models (an ellipse with a semi-major axis of 32″, an ellipticity of 0.6, and a ). The grey circles indicate the position of the fibres that were used for the dynamical analysis.