[yarddog]

I remember Haley’s comet in the 1980s. It was a disappointment. I never saw it.

The one which inspired the suicide cult was better but still nothing extra. At least I could see it.

[Big Red Badger]

Hale Bopp er something,
San Diego makes the
Freak Show Headlines Again!

[yesthatjallen]

I don't even remember seeing Haleys' comet. I was living in NYC at the time.

I do remember clearly seeing Hale-Bopp.

I had made a mental note to search for it but I didn't have to.

One night I was walking home and I looked up and it was clearly visible in a very brightly lit area.

No special arrangements needed.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Halley’s orbit provided its worst view in 5k years IIRC the last time whereas prior visit was glorious. I did see it, but it took a friend to show it with a 16” telescope.

[hanamizu]

I remember Haley’s comet in the 1980s. It was a disappointment.

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I remember looking at kid’s astronomy books in the 50s showing people looking up at Haley’s comment in 1910—it looked to stretch across a 1/3 of the sky. My older relatives told me of it as well. It was spectacular.

The apparition of my lifetime, not so much. I looked at it through a telescope, a bit of a smudge, and that was it.

Youngsters alive today may get a better view in 2061. Hope it is.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I remember Haley’s comet in the 1980s. ***

But Haley’s Comet of 1910 was supposed to choke the people of Earth with it’s poisonous tail!

[SamAdams76]

I remember Haley’s comet in the 1980s. It was a disappointment. I never saw it.

Same here. I went to school during the 1970s and even back then, the 1986 return of Haley's comet was much hyped. Teachers told us how spectacular it would be, that we would be able to see it even in daylight with the naked eye, and how fortunate we would be to see it when we grew up.

During December of 1973, when I was in fifth grade, we had the much hyped coming of Comet Kahoutek and how it might portend the end of the world - or the second coming of Jesus Christ, depending on who you were listening to.

Like the metric system, it was yet another schoolhouse scare that never panned out.

I put comets in the same category of tsunamis. Always hyped but rarely experienced.

[GingisK]

Then there was Comet Kohoutek.