Patience Is A Virtue

Patience, however, may not be a virtue that I’m overly endowed with.

I walked down the hill a ways so I have a better view of the western horizon and at least saw a pretty sunset with a few clouds and some of the coastal fog hovering off far in the distance off of the Ventura County coast.

As I said, a reasonably pretty sunset and the worst of this latest heat wave has broken, so it was nice out.

(Image: Bright Comets app)

The comet tracking app (“Bright Comets,” highly recommended!) says that Comet D/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) should be right on the horizon as these pictures were taken, and getting further away from the Sun and its glare every day. But most folks figure it will be sometime over the weekend or early next week before it’s far enough away to be easily seen.

I knew that – I was here looking anyway. Just in case.

In theory, if it were darker, and if there weren’t clouds the tail of the comet should be rising up from about where that odd T-shaped antenna or light is silhouetted. But it wasn’t darker (maybe this weekend) and the clouds were there (maybe this weekend) so all I got was a very pretty sunset sans comet. And some really weird looks from the folks down the block who were coming home about then and wondering who the weirdo was standing on their sidewalk with a camera and a big pair of binoculars.

Maybe this weekend…