Comet Spotting

Monday, January 15, 2007, at 03:42PM

By Eric Richardson

I took this shot last night from Elysian Park. Turns out it's got a comet in it.

If you click for the larger view you'll see a diagonal white highlight in the upper right part of the image. I'm pretty sure that's Comet McNaught, which has been visible here in LA for the past few days.

I didn't notice that at all when I took the shot. Another one of those things where you get back to the computer and say, "Wait a minute..."

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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