Re: RECORD # PASSES OF 1 SAT IN 1 NIGHT

Henry Eikel (heikel@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 28 Aug 1997 00:26:42 -0500

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From: Jay Respler <jrespler@injersey.com>
To: SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 10:15 PM
Subject: RECORD # PASSES OF 1 SAT IN 1 NIGHT

>A few months ago, it was mentioned here that you might be able to see
several
>passes of Mir in 1 night.  I forgot about it until I noticed Mir was
scheduled
>to make multiple passes for several nights. It wasn't easy to stay up, but
I
>saw 3 and 4 passes on different nights. Haze and trees got in the way of
>seeing more.  Finally, on July 31, the skies cleared, the moon was gone,
and I
>saw 5 passes of the same satellite, Mir, during the course of 1 evening. 
Has
>anyone else tried this?

Yes.  On the night of June 11/12, 1980, myself and two friends saw 5 passes
of Centaur 2 (#00694
).  That was the only time we saw it 5 times, but we did have several other
nights of multiple passes (2-4) seen in a night.

Henry Eikel
Metairie, LA   30.00N  90.18W