Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) I saw it in Shanghai on 1996/3/18, before it reached its maximum brightness. And since the light pollution was very severe in Shanghai, all I could see was a fuzzy spot.

(Left) Binocular view of Comet Hyakutake. H was the comet, a small fuzzy ball like a global cluster. No tail. It was much brighter than M5, which was in roughly the same part of the sky and couldn't be seen with the bino. A, B, C, D were stars, with different size standing for different brightness. The circle is the 5-degree field-of-view(FOV). 1996/3/18 23:46 localtime (UT+8), Shanghai.

(Right) Comet Hyakutake in the 60mm refractor with a 12.5mm eyepiece. The dot at the center was a faint star. The comet had a bright nucleus. The field of view is 33 arcminutes. Its motion against the faint star was quite obvious. In 45 minutes it travelled 1/6 FOV, a speed of 7 arcminutes per hour.

This was my first and last view of Comet Hyakutake. Weeks of rain followed. Then I moved to Beijing. After I settled down, it was gone.