Andrew Cooper
Jun 11, 2010    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 60x
Seeing: 8 Transparency: 7.5 Moon: 0%

A large dark region over 1/2° across, blocks the background Milky Way nicely with a handful of foreground stars punctuating the darkness, the globular NGC6333 on the eastern margin, edges indistinct

E.E. Barnard
25cm f/5 Astrograph

Cometary, W of M9. This object is somewhat cometary in form and has a very black core or head that sharply abuts against the thick stratum of stars; from this it spreads out into a large dark area with much dark detail, filling quite a space close southwest of M9. It thus resembles a dark comet with a dense and well-defined head and diffused widening tail. The position of the head is a=17h9m57s, d=-18°20'6"

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

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