Barnard 79
DSS image of Barnard 79
Overlaid DSS image of Barnard 79, 60' x 60' with north at top and west to the right

Aladin viewer for the region around Barnard 79
B79

Type  Dark Nebula
Magnitude  
Size  30'
Right Ascension  17h 37'  (2000)
Declination  19° 38' S
Constellation  Ophiuchus
Observing Notes

E.E. Barnard
25cm f/5 Astrograph

1/2° long SE and NW, narrow, sharply defined."
― A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, E.E. Barnard, 1927
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Barnard 79