IC 1296

IC 1296
IC 1296, as seen by Spitzer
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Lyra
Right ascension	18^h 53^m 18^s
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 was discovered in the southern spiral arm of IC 1296.[3]

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

See also

• List of spiral galaxies

External links

• IC 1296 at SIMBAD

References

1. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
2. "Ring Nebula (Messier 57) | Deep⋆Sky Corner". deepskycorner.ch. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
3. "Revised IC Data for IC 1296". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2024-06-06.