Hey, did you see that super blood wolf moon on Jan. 20? Was that cool or what? It was so cool it almost made me howl, or bay, or something.

I’m serious. I’ve watched lunar eclipses before. I’ve tried to do all the right things to “see” a solar eclipse. I’ve gone way out into the countryside to wait until 3 a.m. for a meteor shower. But this was one of the two most interesting, most delightful astronomical events I’ve ever seen, ranking right up there with when I watched comet Hale-Bopp seeming to trail me in my rearview mirror almost all the way from Little Rock to New Orleans one night in 1997.