[h0ughy (David)]

That is probably a hard one to answer but I will attempt to do so for me.

A close second would be the Venus transit viewing that we had in Newcastle, the foreshore area was populated by hundreds of people and we had a live radio broadcast by ABC radio whilst it was happening, but in third place was the evening of Tuesday 2nd August 2005 then the whole sky was crystal clear and the sunset was spectacular, rich royal dark blue/black with a orange/red horizon after sunset, the milky way even then very noticeable overhead and the icing on the cake, STS104 passing directly overhead still attached to the ISS, and is beamed reflected light just like car headlights on high beam that illuminated us and the sky directly in front of them. It was awesome.

But in first place for me it would be when I first saw Saturn through a 8 inch Dob in a driveway of a friends place way back when I was 18. I was hooked, it blew me away. Later I then saw Jupiter but the first impression is always the everlasting one for me.