The Observation Database
Obs List
Darker View
Digitized Sky Survey image of B129, 30' x 30' with north at top and west to the right
Overlaid DSS image of B129, 30' x 30' with north at top and west to the right
Dark Nebula
RA (2000)
19h 1'
Dec (2000)
4° 49' S
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Observing Notes
E.E. Barnard
25cm f/5 Astrograph
Very black, sharply defined, diam. 5', a small star at the W end. Somewhat rectangular in form with projections to the east. It is the blacker portion of a dark region 10' in diameter."
Other Data Sources for B129
NED Extended Search
NGC/IC Project Query
SEDS Data
Fourmilab Your Sky
Nearby objects for B129
9 objects found within 60'
PK28-3.1 B125 B126
B127 B128 B130
Acknowledgements and Credits...
Drawings, descriptions and CCD photos are copyright Andrew Cooper unless otherwise noted, no usage without permission. Use for non-profit and educational reasons is generally given on request.
Positional and some physical information is from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Additional object data from the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
The Digitized Sky Survey was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope.
Dark nebulae data from E.E. Barnard, A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Ed. Edwin B. Frost and Mary R. Calvert. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927
Object descriptions of Rev. Webb from Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes sixth edition, Rev. T.W. Webb, 1917, edited by Rev T.E.Espin.