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. It was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard on October 2, 1893.
IC 1296 is only 4 arc minutes away from the well-known Ring Nebula in the night sky. 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 there due to absorption by gas and dust.