IC 1726
ILLUSTRATION FROM HUBBLE TYPE 3 · MAJOR AXIS 0.3′ · POSITION ANGLE 35°
OVERVIEW
GALAXYIC 1726 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces, 240.8 from Earth, shining at apparent magnitude 14.62 (). Other catalogues list it as 2MASX J01451975+0437071, IRAS 01427+0422 and IRAS F01427+0422, among 6 designations in total.
- WHAT IT IS
- Spiral galaxy
- HOW FAR
- 240.8
- HOW BIG ON THE SKY
- 18
- HOW BRIGHT (B)
A luminosity distance, from its redshift — how faint it looks. The light itself left 248 million years ago.
Small enough that the full Moon would cover it several times over.
Faint: it takes a large telescope.
OBSERVING
FROM WHERE YOU AREWhat it takes to see IC 1726 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.
Say where you are, and this line says when IC 1726 is worth going out for.
THROUGH AN EYEPIECE
150 MM TELESCOPE · 25 MM EYEPIECENear the faint end of this catalogue: a 300 mm telescope reaches it and a 150 mm one does not. IC 1726 covers 18″ of sky against a of 1.08°, so at 48× it is a speck in a wide field.
- 48×
- 1.08
- 1.25
- 13.0
- SIZE ON THE SKY
- 18
- FILLS OF THE FIELD
- 0% of the width
- APPARENT MAGNITUDE ()
- 14.62 · too faint for this
IC 1726 is not a point of light, so the limit above is the wrong one to hold it against: the same brightness spread over 18″ of sky is harder than a star of it, and goes first. Catalogued sizes are measured to a photographic contour, and the part an eye sees is usually smaller.
APPARENT PLACE
EQUINOX J2026.8Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.
- RIGHT ASCENSION
- DECLINATION
- GRID TURNED SINCE
- 22.5
- PROPER MOTION SINCE
- none published
Computed for 2026-10-25 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for IC 1726, so nothing here moves the object; what separates this from the catalogued position above is the coordinate grid turning under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. The catalogue it came from publishes no error for that position, so nothing here says how far this arithmetic can be trusted — the digits above are as precise as the place they were computed from, and no more. Aberration, parallax and refraction are left out. Aberration swings every position by up to twenty arcseconds over a year; parallax stays under an arcsecond for all but the nearest stars; refraction is nothing overhead and about half a degree at the horizon, where it answers to the air, not the sky. The same figure for any date.
CATALOG DATA
14 FIELDSThe raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.
WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS
What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.
- Hubble type
HOW BRIGHT IT IS
What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.
- Apparent magnitude ()
- Apparent magnitude ()
- Apparent magnitude ( band)
- Apparent magnitude ()
WHERE IT IS AND HOW IT MOVES
Position, motion across the sky and the size it covers on it. These are measurements of the object as seen from here, so every one of them depends on where here is.
- 5349
- Redshift (z)
- Redshift (z, CMB frame)
- Major axis
- 0.3
- Minor axis
- 0.3
- 35
OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS
The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.
- OpenNGC type code
- G
- Wikidata item
- Q3693426
WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM
Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.
- Morphology from
- SIMBAD (2005ApJS..160..149S, quality D)
ALSO KNOWN AS
6 DESIGNATIONS- 2MASX 2MASX J01451975+0437071
- IC IC 1726
- IRAS IRAS 01427+0422
- IRAS IRAS F01427+0422
- LEDA LEDA 6441
- PGC PGC 6441
LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE
4 SERVICESEach link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.
- SIMBADIC 1726
Cross-identifications, measured values and the reference behind each of them.
- NEDIC 1726
Redshift-independent distances, photometry across the spectrum and the extragalactic literature.
- ADSobject:"IC 1726"
Papers indexed against this object rather than against the string, newest first.
- VizieR9″ around 26.3320 +4.6185
Every published table with a row at this position, searched by coordinates rather than by name.
CITE THIS PAGE
DR1This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.
SpaceCatalog. IC 1726 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/ic-1726
@misc{spacecatalog_ic-1726,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{IC 1726}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/ic-1726},
note = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from OpenNGC.}
}The values above were taken from OpenNGC — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue, and its licence is share-alike: the terms reach whatever you build from these rows.
That catalogue asks for this acknowledgement: OpenNGC, Mattia Verga (github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC). Fields derived from it stay under CC BY-SA 4.0.