Barnard 56 (Dark nebula)

R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 10 arcminutes across.

From Fairfield , Barnard 56 is visible from soon after it rises, at 16:30, until soon before it sets at 00:13.

Name Barnard 56

Object type Dark nebula

Part of The Pipe Nebula

Other names

B 56^[1]
LDN 1685^[2]

Position

Sources

^[1]	Barnard's Catalogue of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky (Barnard, 1927)

^[2]	"Catalogue of Dark Nebulae", B.T. Lynds, 1962, Astrophysical Journal Supplement

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