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A man has to his fiancée during an event that just once every 6,800 years or so - give or take a decade or two. John Nicotera, 33, the question to his now affianced Erica Pendrak, 26, while the Neowise comet passed over their heads. It will be another seven millennia before anyone else can down on one knee and propose while the celestial body overhead. Mr Nicotera a space buff. He knew the rare astronomical event would place in the Northern Hemisphere for a limited time and planned his proposal to with the comet being visible in the night sky. The couple to a campsite outside New York last week and John waited for the comet to .

Ms Pendrak immediately Mr Nicotera's proposal. She told reporters that she knew her fiancé was her to see the once-in-a-lifetime event. She said she got the surprise of her life when he down to one knee. She said: "I was just completely shocked - tears and everything. I instant chills and pure happiness." A photographer friend went to the campsite with the couple to the proposal with the comet by across the heavens. John and Erica are both teachers who like historical events together. John said: "Every single star out. It was too special to it go. I thought, 'I'm massively in love with this girl. I'm going to it.'"