I've seen 4, I think the record and theoretical max is 6. 52 N is too far north because the alignment has to occur in local spring-summer and at 52 north the period of darkness is too short. The optimum latitude is 35-40, longer night, still adequate elevation at farthest north pass. Dale > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Ehrlich [mailto:eehrlich@shani.net] > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:49 AM > sunlight. > >Jay lives near New York. But also from my location at 52 degrees north > it >is possible to see ISS (and other sats)on more than 2 consectutive > passes. > > Thank you for the explanation. I'm a little surprised because I just > don't remember a case in the many (hundreds of thousands) low flying > satellite predictions that I've made, ever seeing more than two > consecutive passes. > > If anybody has the time and location from which they have seen 3 or more > consecutive passes, I would very much appreciate the information. I > would like to check if my software is handling that situation correctly. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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