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Type: dark nebula
Mag: –
Size: 6′
PA: ?
Note (supplied by Bill Gray, Project Pluto): Small, curved, dusky; diam. 6'. Elongated north and south, with dusky extension running 15' NW. A short line of small stars close west.
Visual Observations of Dark Nebulae. MNRAS, 90, 326.
"The following observations, therefore, were made with the 6-inch Cooke refractor at Brockhurst, usually with a fine achromatic Kellner eyepiece of 1-inch focus and field of 36' ... observed on two nights, commencing in 1929 August and ending in December ... on very clear nights, and in the total absence of the moonlight, when the Milky Way was conspicuous."
Barnard 349: "Small curved dusky marking, rather faint. About 1/2 degrees p 56 Cygni."
Lacaille's catalogue
The Messier objects
Dunlop's catalogue
The Bennett objects
The Caldwell list
Named DSOs
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