Finally caught C/2026 N1 in the pre-dawn gap

Three weeks of clouds and my own sleep schedule fighting me, and this morning the sky just opened up long enough — small smudge of light hanging below the Dipper, exactly where the ephemeris said it would be. Sketching it took twenty minutes and my fingers went numb, but it's in the log now. Some nights you chase a thing for so long you forget what you'll feel when it shows up. I'd forgotten. It feels good to remember.