IC 1296

IC 1296
IC 1296, as seen by Spitzer
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Lyra
Right ascension	18h 53m 18s
Declination	+33° 03’ 59”
Redshift	0.017075
Heliocentric radial velocity	5,119 km/s
Distance	238 Mly (72.97 Mpc)
Surface brightness	23.63 mag/arcsec^2
Characteristics
Type	SBbc
Size	120,000 ly
Apparent size (V)	1.10' x 0.9'
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 120,000 light-years in diameter.^[1]

IC 1296 is only 4 arc minutes away from the well-known Ring Nebula in the night sky.^[2] 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.

The astronomical object was discovered on October 2, 1893, by Edward Emerson Barnard. In August 2013, supernova SN2013ev^[3] was discovered in the southern spiral arm of IC 1296.^[4]