15 Dec
2004
15 Dec
'04
10:41 p.m.
For me, it's Ikea-Seki and Hale-Bopp. Ikea was a sun-grazer in 1965. I remember seeing the body of the comet near the horizon and the tail stretching halfway to the zenith. Wowzers!
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?