Hale Bopp, that was the one.
Hale Bopp.
I was living at 7000ft in the Rocky Mountains when it came through, a small ski town in the middle of nowhere with hardly any visible light pollution at all.
The comet was quite frankly stunning, and I really mean quite amazing. I can fully understand why the ancients got so worked up about them and thought they were harbingers of doom and destruction. The tail covered a third of the sky up there and just forced you to look at it. It was a very very obvious visitor to a night sky that is remarkable in its unchanging nature. It must have been there for months.
If this one is as good as Hale Bopp I'd travel anywhere in the world to get a good look. The view from the UK was pitiful compared to how it looked somewhere with good viewing conditions. If this new one turns out to be as good as predicted you should go somewhere really dark and see it, they are truly magnificent and psychologically quite sinister.
The tail doesn't follow the comet though (as you might expect it would).
chapeau, that site you described up in the rockies sounds like an ideal place to see andromeda.
Did you ever see it, if you did how big did it appear in relation to a full moon.
It's something I've always wanted to see with the naked eye but I've never been anywhere I could make it out from.
The tail doesn't follow the comet though (as you might expect it would).
That's what you might expect because you don't have a clue about how these things work.
The best place I've ever seen the night sky is in the Utah Desert. I was driving from Phoenix to Colorado and was knackered so pulled over outside Moab for a kip. Woke up and blah blah blah.