FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Sad News about Peter Manly, 1945-2007

[gene lucas <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have learned that Peter L. Manly, active in SAC during the 1980s, 
passed away last Friday at the VA hospital in Phoenix, after a long 
illness. Captain Manly served and flew in the USAF in Vietnam; later 
working on the Air Force GEODSS satellite tracking telescope program; 
and then for NASA on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory.  He was active in 
the San Jose Astronomy Association, before moving to Phoenix.  He took 
part in several solar eclipse expeditions.  Peter was a pioneer in video 
astronomy, for occultation timing and eclipses.  Along with several 
other SAC members, we did a series of programs featuring live broadcasts 
of Halley's Comet on Channel 8 KAET TV at ASU in 1985-86.  He was a 
member of the IAPPP photometry organization, and IOTA, the International 
Occultation Timing Association.  He published a number of magazine 
articles on astronomy, and two books, "Unusual Telescopes" and "The 
20-cm Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope", both still widely available.  In 
later years, Peter wrote and published two science fantasy books and a 
number of science fiction stories and was active in the SF writers 
groups in Arizona.

A wake is planned in Scottsdale on August 10th.  Please contact me off 
line for details and to RSVP to the hosts.

Gene Lucas
(480) 837-3718
geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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