There really isn't very much information easily available about this object. My goto planetarium app, skysafari, has it listed, but with no description other than some technical details like position and size. Dark nebula have proved to be very elusive to me. Skysafari, and the internet are fittingly quot;voidquot; of much information on these dark objects. I've had a devil of a time trying to image one, and I was very happy when I saw the faint dark regions appear in this image after stacking. Not my best image, and I had to stretch it quite a bit to tease out detail from the dark dusty regions of space. These types of objects are in-fact not quot;voidquot; of matter even though they are dark. They are relatively dense with cosmic dust that blocks light. Otherwise known as globule's, or molecular clouds, dark nebula are regions of space where stars are born. They are dark because any stars that may be forming inside are not yet lit. Once they do light they put on a spectacular show like the iris nebula, and many other quot;lightquot; nebula.br/Many of the dark objects are listed under the LDN catalog, and skysafari has the catalog, but objects tend to have no descriptions except for the most notable dark objects. Beverly T. Lynds created the LDN catalog relatively recently in the 1960's, and she wrote a book: quot;Dark nebulae, globules, and protostarsquot;. It's on amazon -- I thought about buying it, but it's pretty dry, and I don't think that I'd read it. It's available on line here: http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1977PASP...89..597B/0000606.000.html. Here's an excerpt from page 607:br/Large Globules; Their Evolutionary Statusbr/ ....br/ The evidence for a central core seems strong enough to postulate that most likely the core will collapse faster than the outer parts. In the absence of marked rotation the process of collapse will probably lead to the formation of a young star at the center, surrounded by a cloud of cosmic dust and various molecules ... As the star evolves and becomes hotter, it would tend to blow away it's surrounding shell.br/There is a type of small dark nebula called a quot;Bok globulequot;. I'm wondering if that's what I see in the dark clouds in this picture? These are also dusty regions of space, but just relatively small. Named by Bart Bok in the 1940's.br/Imaging telescope / lensbr/ Celestron Cassegrain 203/2032 mm EdgeHD8br/ Starizona Lens 290 mmbr/ Imaging camerabr/ ZWO Optical ASI 1600 MM Pro (CMOS)br/ Mountbr/ Equatorial Losmandy GM811Gbr/ Guiding telescope / lensbr/ Astromania Refractor 60/240 mm Astromania 60br/ Guiding camerabr/ ZWO Optical ASI 178 MC (CMOS)br/ Filtersbr/ ZWO Optical Red 1.25quot;br/ ZWO Optical Green 1.25quot;br/ ZWO Optical Blue 1.25quot;br/ Accessoriesbr/ Focal reducer Celestron 0.7br/ Processed withbr/ PixInsight (Pleiades Astrophoto) 73.0.3683.10br/ FRAMES / SUBSbr/ Lights (filter Red)17 x 60 secbr/ Lights (filter Green)22 x 60 secbr/ Lights (filter Blue)37 x 60 secbr/ Total lights integration time1:16 hours