Those big ones really do spoil one, don't they? A 3rd, 4th magnitude comet only a few degrees across? Yawn.... What are your favorites of the last 30 years, Patrick? I'd rank mine as West, Hyakutake, Hale-Bopp, in that order. Biggest disappointments were Halley and Kohoutek. Oh, Austin was a yawner too. People may not believe it, but you could read a newspaper by the light of comet West. Ziggy and Brent remember a couple even earlier...but then I don't QUITE qualify for the "senior" discount at the movies...not quite yet... ;)
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:51:24 -0700 Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Comet Macholtz
Ah, memories of that magical night when the tail stretched almost all the way across the sky.
Sigh...
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