Hale-Bopp Comet

Isn't that the one where all those freaks committed mass suicide because they thought it signified the end of the world?

Maybe we need a Hale Bopp every year. Might start to clean this place up.

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I remember I could look up and see it for a long time but I guess I didnt realize it was months.

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It was visible for like 1.5 years. Unfortunately it won’t be back around for another 2300 years. Craziest thing to me, is that we discovered the thing only a year before it was visible to the naked eye.

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Isn't that the one where all those freaks committed mass suicide because they thought it signified the end of the world?

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including Uhura's (from Star Trek) brother

I remember it was so prominent it looked like a special effect.

In fact, I tried to find a pic to post but all the ones in my search looked fake so I didn't want to risk it. Look them up.

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Hale-Bopp Comet

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Would have been in the mid-1990s? I remember it. I made a lot of before sunrise fishing trips that year and could see what appeared like a smudge around a star. I did see it for many mornings. And as I recall it was seen with a tail as it approached the sun and disappeared from view. Some time later it could be seen again as it exited the back side of the sun. I've not seen as good a comet since.

I saw it on a night flight out of my plane window at 35000 feet. Awesome.

Hale-Bopp was really impressive. Completely visible to the naked eye with a huge tail for months. You could see it despite being in the middle of a city for a couple months.

I ‘member. Hale-Bopp was the GOAT comet.

frick off scott fraggot.

Photograph of a comet I made a few years ago with a 200mm lens on my Canon 40D. The comet which was not visible to the naked eye can be seen in the upper right of this video. I made 23 separate images of the comet over a one and a half hour period on October 10, 2010 and put the separate images together to show the movement of the comet during that period of time.