[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)]

[yarddog]

I went over to my Parents house which was located in a dark and clear sky. I focused my spotting scope on it.

I can remember telling my parents about it and being surprised that they wanted to see it. They were around 80 at the time but they went out and looked at it. I think it was the only comet they ever saw.

[VanDeKoik]

The 90s were a great time to be an amateur astronomer in the U.S..

Shoemaker-Levy 9
Comet Hyakutake
Hale-Bopp
The annular eclipse of 94
The Perseid shower peak

And the new World Wide Web just added to the fun.

Man I hope ISON lives up to the hype. Things have been a bit dry in the Eastern U.S. for the past 14 years.

[1raider1]

I remember enjoying the sight of this comet out of the side window of my car on my way home from work many mornings, back then.

[oh8eleven]

Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997
Helped Nike sales too ...

[Terry L Smith]

Isn’t there some other sort of link, other than going to the internet pigsty called facebook?

[cynwoody]

On its last visit, that comet had an interesting effect on certain defective earthlings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBTLThA0wOw