Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  40 Oph)  ·  The star Aggia (ξ Oph
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Dark Nebulae Barnard 261 and 262, Philippe Barraud
Dark Nebulae Barnard 261 and 262
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Dark Nebulae Barnard 261 and 262

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Dark Nebulae Barnard 261 and 262, Philippe Barraud
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Dark Nebulae Barnard 261 and 262

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I particularly like those intriguing dark nebulae described by Edward Emerson Barnard (1857-1923) in his beautiful book A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. The book was published after his death, in 1927, and only 700 copies were printed.

The book has been re-published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press.

This image shows Barnard 67, 75, 261, 262, 73 (The Snake Nebula), 68, 69, 70, and several dark nebulae from the LDN Catalogue in Ophiucus, established by Beverly Lynds  in the 1950s-1960s of dark nebulae found on plates of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.

PS: Unfortunately, the astrometry job failed !

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Dark Nebulae Barnard 261 and 262, Philippe Barraud