IC 1296

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]

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

The Ring Nebula. IC 1296 is visible as the faint galaxy to the right.

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.

Supernova

One supernova has been observed in IC 1296: SN 2013ev (Type II, mag. 17.2) was discovered by the Italian Supernovae Search Project (ISSP) on 11 August 2013.^[4][5][6]

See also

• List of spiral galaxies

External links

• IC 1296 at SIMBAD