It is located 289 million light years from Earth[1] and was discovered by Austrian astronomer, Rudolf Spitaler on October 6, 1891.

[2] The galaxy has an approximate diameter of 65,000 light years with a surface brightness of 12.8 square arcmin.

The region of IC 1481 has bright portions forming in a figure eight pattern and extends at Position Angle (PA) = 50° by ~ 13 arcseconds on both sides of its nucleus.

[7] The stellar population of IC 1481 shows a post-starburst signature, which the Balmer lines contain strong absorption.

This suggests the AGN of IC 1481 has an unstable molecular gas disk with a mass of (4.3 ± 0.3) x 107 MΘ.