Lynds(Bright) ivo://nasa.heasarc/lbn NASA/GSFC HEASARC Lynds 2026-05-29 NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Nebula The Lynds' Catalog of Bright Nebulae lists the coordinates of the center of the cloud, the dimensions of the nebulae as measured on the photograph on which it appeared at its brightest, the area of nebulosity in square degrees, color as compared between the blue and red Palomar plates, a brightness index on a scale from 1 to 6, an identification number that indicates the complexity of the nebulosity, and a cross reference to NGC (Cat. <VII.1>), Index Catalogue (IC), Sharpless (1959) Catalogue of HII Regions (Cat. <VII/20>), Cederblad (1956) Catalogue of Diffuse Galactic Nebulae, and Dorschner and Gurtler (1963). This database originates from the NASA/ADC CD-ROM "Selected Astronomical Catalogs Vol. 1", dated 09-July-1992. The CDS made several corrections to this and added the LBN sequence number. The current HEASARC version of this table was revised in February 2001 and is based on the CDS version. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC . 1965ApJS...12..163L https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/lbn.html Catalog Research served-by HEASARC TAP https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=lbn& GET text/xml 180 99999 true 264.06602959 -32.36409487 0.25 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/getvotable.pl?name=lbn GET text/xml https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_lbn&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1 NEBULA CATALOG 0.25 Optical public lbn Lynds Catalog of Bright Nebulae name Catalog Designation meta.id;meta.main char nullable ra Right Ascension degree pos.eq.ra;meta.main double nullable dec Declination degree pos.eq.dec;meta.main double nullable brightness Brightness Scale [1-6] (1=Brightest) short nullable color Color Index on Palomar Plates [1-4] (1=Blue; 4=Red) short nullable "area" Area of Nebulosity (degree^2) degree^2 double nullable large_dimension Largest Dimension of Cloud (arcmin) arcmin short nullable small_dimension Smallest Dimension of Cloud (arcmin) arcmin short nullable association_id Association Identification Number (0=Isolated) short nullable "__x_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__y_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__z_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__row" System index column char nullable bii Galactic Latitude degree pos.galactic.lat double nullable lii Galactic Longitude degree pos.galactic.lon double nullable alt_name Alternative Designation from Cross-Referencing Other Catalogs meta.id char nullable class Browse Object Classification src.class short nullable