I once saw six consecutive passes of Mir. The first and last passes were in light strong enough to easily read a newspaper. I had to use binoculars to see it and the AM pass could only be found because it passed near Jupiter and I had marked the position of Jupiter before dawn relative to some landmarks. On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:16:10 -0400, you wrote: >> Just a reminder, beginning yesterday the ISS is following the Earth's >> terminator for a couple days and thus is in sunlight 24 hours a day and can >> be seen on every pass all night long. > >I had done a Mir Marathon and although I haven't been able to do >any regular observing recently, I stayed up all night for an ISS marathon. >Sat. night, I tracked 5 consecutive naked eye passes of a single satellite. >Has anyone else done this? >-- >Jay Respler ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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