She lives in a small town, in a cul de sac, and the houses get in the way.... plus the streetlights destroy visibility. As you know I do a lot of star-gazing so when big events, such as this, happen she'll usually come out to my home in the country to view them. If the event is supposed to be truly spectacular we'll all go to my ranch which is much higher in elevation and has very little light pollution.
A tangent: I've been very, VERY, fortunate in my life to have seen some truly remarkable astronomic events... blind luck showing me favor. I've mentioned these before - so just a couple: In the 60's I was sitting with my girlfriend, now wife, on her front step and witnessed a Russian satellite burn up entering earth's atmosphere. Of course we had no idea what it was when it occurred. It was a sight to behold... just an enormous fireball throwing sparks and fire across nearly the entire sky from horizon to horizon. Perspective is difficult for astronomical events and I thought at first it had hit the ground south of me but not far away. Actually it had made contact with the earth in the Pacific ocean thousands of miles south of my location. ( I learned later).
The other spectacular event I was fortunate enough to witness I consider a 'miracle'. So rare that I think I must be one of the very few on earth to have ever seen this occurrence... I saw a meteor hit the ground.... again, just blind luck that I was looking up when it happened. I saw the meteor come down, nearly straight down from my angle, then explode when it hit the earth. I think one of the most remarkable things about it was the 'colors' it produced... never saw those colors before or since. It had hit the ground in the town of Malaga which is a suburb of Fresno and about 35 miles east of me. Many astronomers from across the state rushed to the scene, (I did not), but nothing was ever found... it was determined that it had completely disintegrated either just before contact or on contact.
