| IC 1296 | |
|---|---|
 IC 1296 imaged by the Spitzer Space Telescope | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Lyra |
| Right ascension | 18h 53m 18.8149s [1] |
| Declination | +33° 03′ 59.599″ [1] |
| Redshift | 0.017085 [1] |
| Heliocentric radial velocity | 5,119 km/s |
| Distance | 238 Mly (72.97 Mpc) |
| Surface brightness | 23.63 mag/arcsec^2 |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SBbc |
| Size | ~97,100 ly (29.77 kpc) (estimated) [1] |
| Apparent size (V) | 1.1′ × 0.9′ [1] |
| Other designations | |
| IC 1296, UGC 11374, PGC 62532, CGCG 201-040, MCG +06-41-022, 2MASX J18531883+3303596, 2MASS J18531884+3303599 | |
IC 1296 is an extremely faint barred spiral galaxy of Hubble-type SBbc in the constellation Lyra in the northern sky. It is estimated to be 238 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 97,000 light-years in diameter. [1] It was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard on October 2, 1893. [2]
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IC 1296 is only 4 arc minutes away from the well-known Ring Nebula in the night sky. [3] Planetary nebulae and galaxies are rarely observed together because planetary nebulae are galactic objects and are concentrated toward our galactic center, where extragalactic objects – such as distant galaxies – are rarely observed due to absorption by gas and dust.