[BradyLS]

I learned with Comet Kohoutek back in ‘73 (and the Harmonic Convergence in...88?) to avoid the hype when it comes to celestial happenings. Weather and overselling kill a lot events.

[pfflier]

Weather and overselling kill a lot events.

So true. The entitled people that paid big bucks to see this will blame the bad weather on globull climate change.

It's the "apoeclipse"!!

[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.