Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)

Centre of dark space, extending 5m in R.A. and 1° in Dec., which Es. believes to occupied by a body absorbing the light of the stars. Barnard has found several objects which he believes to be due to an absorption medium, one at 18h7m, S. 18°15' especially remarkable [B92].

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

E.E. Barnard
25cm f/5 Astrograph

In S part of larger, relatively vacant area nearly 1° in diam. This is the dark object mentioned by Espin in Monthly Notices, 58, 334, 1898. It is close north to a small group of faint stars and is 6' or 8' in diameter. In a somewhat larger vacant space. It is not so definite as B 15.

― A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, E.E. Barnard, 1927

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