deskthority

mr_a500 wrote:

fohat wrote: For many many years I have hoped to see great celestial events. I am an old man, and there have been many "opportunities" that always seem to get messed up, very often by overcast or bad weather.

I can't even count the number of times I went out to see a celestial event in the middle of the night only to see a sky full of clouds or the "event" not visible. (and get eaten by mosquitoes in summer or freeze my ass in winter)

I even missed Halley's comet - didn't see a damn thing, even though it was supposedly visible for months. (and no, I wasn't looking through the wrong end of the binoculars)