Not Seeing Anything

My Father wanted to see if we could go out to see a particular astrological phenomenon, so we got into the car and drove around a bit, trying to see it.  Mostly this involved driving around in the dark, trying to see if there was a point near by at which we could see it.  No luck.  Mostly this just meant blowing a half an hour that I could have probably used to continue working on some of my writing or talking to some friends. 
It was very anti-climatic, not seeing anything.