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Originally Posted by astroron
In my book what I call bright are comets that get to be seen in twilight or daylight such as Hale-Bopp, Hyaukataki, West, and Ikaya- Seki.
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Ron,
The 1st Celestial Body I ever looked at was Bennett's Comet in 1970. I was only 11 years old and my mother told me the night before she was going to wake me at 4:00am to look at "something special" in the sky. Well prior to looking, I was under the impression that nothing in the sky was special enough to wake at 4:00am to look at
From the 1st glimpse I was hooked, I was amazed that something so bright with a long tail like that could even exist in the night sky. Unfortunately at the time my parents nor I, knew anything about Comets or Astronomy and we only owned a small pair of binos, but it was the ember that started the fire. Since that time I have had a love affair with big bright naked eye comets, not that there is an over abundance of them. Surprisingly, I don't really have much interest in observing the dimmer comets telescopically or in binoculars for that matter, they just don't row my boat.
CS-John B