E.E. Barnard
25cm f/5 Astrograph

Irregular, unequally dark, extended SE and NW, diam. 2°. This is a very large region of obscure nebulosity with several darker streaks in it tending northwest. It is partly separated from another starless region lying about 2° to the west and north. Near the middle of the first of the se regions is a small luminous nebula with a faint fan-shaped extension for 10' to the northeast (B14). This is undoubtedly a brighter condensation of the great obscuring mass surrounding it. The position of this small nebula [IC2087] is a = 4h 32m 20s, d = +25°30'.

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

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