I saw Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, its eighty thousand years of eccentrically retrograde orbit triangulated from Arcturus and Rasalhague. It looked like a retinal smudge to the naked eye, no brighter than the Pleiades in a suburban afterdusk. With binoculars, the smear of the tail came clear. It is receding from us rapidly, nothing like the photographs from even a week ago. How much time there is to be seen in the sky.

"Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light," my ghost review for Derek Jarman and Alan Turing, has been accepted for reprint by Not One of Us. The only better home would have been Bryher's Close Up.

In about half an hour I shall look again if it is clear (it has just clouded) and see if I can notice its motion among the stars and also see what it looks like with the powerful eyepiece (×250). The group of 5 4th mag. stars in Delphinus come into the field of the finder in pairs.
—Christopher Morcom to Alan Turing, 6 January 1930