[@Parker06] for recent reviews of these and other surveys. We focus in this paper on PNe in the LMC, the known population for which has increased greatly with the publication of an extensive catalog by @RP06a [@RP06b hereafter referred to as the RP catalog]. The RP catalog is based upon both a deep photographic survey in H$\alpha$ and in red continuum of the central 25 square degrees of the LMC, and upon follow-up confirmatory spectroscopy. In all, 460 new objects were classified as PNe with varying degrees of confidence: a thorough analysis of optical emission line ratios, nebular morphological features, prominence of the continuum, and the inferred degree of contamination from background sources, resulted in 292 objects being classified by @RP06a [@RP06b] as “true" PNe, 54 as “likely," and 114 as “possible." The lack of complete certainty in the PN classification is in part due to the similarity of emission line ratios between very low excitation (VLE) PNe and other kinds of objects, and also to strong, diffuse emission or strong contaminating continuum emission in the immediate vicinity of some objects.

The thrust of this study was to search the [*HST*]{} archive for images that might contain any of the 