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Lynds Catalogue of Bright Nebulae

(LBN, Catalogue of Bright Nebulae)
(1950s/1960s list of bright nebulae found on Palomar plates)

Lynds Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (or just Catalogue of Bright Nebulae, abbreviated LBN) is a catalog assembled by Beverly Lynds in the 1960s of bright nebulae found on plates of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS).


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Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynds%27_Catalogue_of_Bright_Nebulae
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965ApJS...12..163L/abstract
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/nebula-catalog/lbn.html
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LBNLBN 1976 

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