That one just predates my cosmic awareness, though I've heard the stories. I was about seven years old, and still two years away from my first telescope. West's tail was in that category- by the time the nucleus rose, the tail was halfway to the zenith. Patrick had it right- when the tail started to rise early in the morning, you thought it was the moon below the horizon. --- Michael Carnes <MichaelCarnes@earthlink.net> wrote:
Anybody remember Ikeya-Seki? That was the first major comet I saw, somewhere around 1965. The tail went from the horizon halfway up the sky. If I remember correctly, it was a sun-grazer that came in fast and broke up going around the sun.
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