Barnard 288
DSS image of Barnard 288
Overlaid DSS image of Barnard 288, 30' x 30' with north at top and west to the right

Aladin viewer for the region around Barnard 288
B288

Type  Dark Nebula
Magnitude  
Size  2'
Right Ascension  17h 54'  (2000)
Declination  36° 23' S
Constellation  Scorpius
Observing Notes

E.E. Barnard
25cm f/5 Astrograph

Black, diam. 2', diffuses toward NE, 25' SW of CD-36°12060 (6.3 arcmin)."
― A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, E.E. Barnard, 1927
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Barnard 288