IC 1296
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! style="text-align:left;" | Apparent magnitude (V)
| ?
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! style="text-align:left;" | Apparent dimensions (V)
| 1.0' × 0.6'
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! style="text-align:left;" | Constellation
| Lyra
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! colspan="2" style="background-color: #30D5C8; text-align: center;" | Physical characteristics
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! style="text-align:left;" | Radius
| 100,000 ly
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! style="text-align:left;" | Absolute magnitude (V)
| -15.4
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! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Other designations
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|} IC 1296 (also known as Uppsala 11374) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 200 million light-years away, in the constellation Lyra. IC 1296 is a faint, face-on, and it just happens to lie within 4' of the famous Ring Nebula (this is rare). IC 1296 is a member of the NGC 6703 group of galaxies, along with NGC 6745.
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