Invading the constellation of Vela is this ominous dark dusty cloud. Catalogued as FEST 1-109, it belongs to the FEST catalogue of dark nebulae, which was published in 1984 by the astronomers Johannes Feitzinger and Janine Stuwe and contains 820 dark nebulae in total.
Thanks to Sakib Rasool
who proposed and described this object for me.
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