Dark clouds in Taurus
The finest dark nebulae for telescopes are those that are silhouetted against a bright background, such as the striking, chevron-shaped dark lane within the high surface brightness Carina Nebula, or those silhouetted against the Milky Way’s brightest star clouds. One example of the latter is Barnard 92, a foreground object in front of distant M24 (the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud).
Dark nebulae are also detectable in much fainter portions of the Milky Way, but while they may look obvious on images, they’re fairly challenging at the eyepiece. Since the Milky Way background is too faint visually to silhouette the dust clouds,
