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| Lowrey's L is a peculiar L shaped bluish appearance at RA 13: 31: 04.19 / Decl +77° 46' 01.3", in the constellation Camelopardalis. I have the name Lowrey's L and this object's coordinates in my, say, cosmic notebook since 2022, but I want to know if it has an officially accepted I.A.U.- designation or a catalog number, because I also want to know something about that curious object via the SIMBAD-Query form. It is detectable in WIKISKY at the above mentioned coordinates. One can't miss it! There is indeed a remarkable blue colored "L" at that location, and I wonder if it is also photographed by one or more astrobinners. I did a search for Lowrey's L in ASTROBIN, but... nothing... It seems to have been mentioned in Faintfuzzies.com, and there is a possibility that Lowrey's L was discovered by a certain Jimi Lowrey, a very experienced amateur astronomer. Who of you astrobinners could tell me more about that mysterious object? The nearest HD stars are HD 119272 (north following), and HD 117402 (south preceding). |
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Now you got me interested. From Telescopius.com: Showing exact coordinates but slightly more to the right. Simulation view with a 3000mm scope with a 533 cam:  Someone with an 11 inch edge HD (or any scope, with, I would say, at least 2400mm focal length) and small pixel camera can go after it. |
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Glad you like it messierman3000 ! I must say, I know this name (Lowrey's L) from the huge alphabetic list of named deepsky objects created by someone of CLEAR SKIES. Very curious: no coordinates and/or catalog number(s) are mentioned, so I had to perform a search to get its pinpoint location in Camelopardalis. How I came across the coordinates of this object... I don't know! (I didn't wrote the source of these coordinates on my 10-by-10 centimeter thin square shaped lightblue cardboard of Lowrey's L) (you really should see this: my artisanal "data center" of hundreds of these 10-by-10 cards, with "guide book" to see how many names and nicknames I collected since the early eighties) (yes, I like the good old fashioned way). Now, what could this be? (Lowrey's L). Is it a combination of two galaxies, looking like an "L"? Was it photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope? Or perhaps by the WEBB telescope? |
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It's a strange one, no results whatsoever with Aladin Lite on this object.  Coordinates from Aladin:  |
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| A real cosmic mystery! Looks like I came up with an unanswerable question! My goodness... wait until many more mysteries shall "pop up"! |
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This looks to be related to this mystery. https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1995/news-1995-08.html Some faraway galaxies appear blue, and so I'm voting that this object is 2 colliding galaxies. |
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It sure resembles a pair of interacting galaxies, it shows up in both red and blue surveys pretty similarly, so that adds up. Naturally Astrometry didn't work on it as Aladin couldn't name them. But a cool find! |
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I challenged a Planewave CDK 14 user to go after it.  We'll see if he accepts the challenge. |
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Imagine: Lowrey's L as APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day). |
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Update: He has accepted the challenge: "'I am away from my observatory for awhile. It looks like the target crosses the meridian right about astronomical dark this time of year. If I am able to catch it before it sinks too low, I will see what I can capture.' Randall Schleier" |
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| Me with my Orion SkyQuest Dobsonian (8 inch) in the over-illuminated city of Ghent (East Flanders - Belgium), Bortle £%$&§ (!!!). Mmmmm... I don't think I will ever see it (Lowrey's L)... I'm always surprised when I see Sirius (Alpha Canis Majoris). |
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| You can't be sirius |
