IC 1011 is a barred spiral galaxy with apparent magnitude of 14.7, and with a redshift of z=0.02564 (SIMBAD) or 0.025703 (NASA), yielding a distance of 100 to 120 megaparsecs. Its light takes 349.5 million years to reach Earth. IC 1011's calculated age is approximately 12.95 billion years. The IC designation comes from the Index Catalogue.