A friend who lives well outside of town said Hyutake was the most spectacular thing he'd ever seen in the night sky. I never got around to going someplace dark to see it! And then one guy saw the space shuttle streak overhead in re-entry one night. I missed that too.

But I was cross-country skiing during a partial eclipse once--the specks of sunlight under the pine trees were all crescentric instead of round, very striking.

--Don