[SamAdams76]

I remember Comet Kohoutek. What a letdown that was. I was 11 years old and in sixth grade. Dubbed "The Christmas Comet", it was to outstrip the brightness of even Comet Hailey from earlier that century.

I even got a telescope for Christmas and I still couldn't find the darn thing up there in the sky. Probably because it was a cheap telescope. My parents didn't have a lot of money but I'd rather have gotten a Flexible Flyer sled. I did get my first transistor radio that year, one of those Radio Shack handhelds that only pulled in the AM stations but at least that gave me a lot of hours of use before I ruined it at the beach in the summer of '74.

[Inyo-Mono]

I remember Comet Kohoutek. What a letdown that was. I was 11 years old and in sixth grade. Dubbed "The Christmas Comet", it was to outstrip the brightness of even Comet Hailey from earlier that century.

I saw Comet Kohoutek pretty clearly without a telescope or binoculars in the early dawn sky in 1973. I was 23 at the time and was in Death Valley with non-polluted clear skies.

[bosco24]

-I remember Comet Kohoutek. What a letdown that was.-

I remember Comet Kohoutek but it wasn’t a letdown.

I had just meet my future wife and convinced her to stay awake all night to see the comet.I told her it was a once in a life time moment that can’t be missed.

We didn’t see the comet but we were married soon after, 50 years ago. It was a once in the life time moment. :)

[Fledermaus]

A friend and I climbed up a water tower.

By the time it was supposed to be visible we had full cloud cover.

Bummer. But as you said, it was a bust anyway.