I saw Halley’s Comet when I was a kid and then when I was a 16 or 17 I hung out with some friends all night on the end of a pier in Davis, NC (with blankets, it was November as I recall and very cold on said pier) and watched Hale-Bopp all night. It was so beautiful! An experience I will never forget. The whole sky was lit up, we could even see the Milky Way very clearly.