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[gene lucas <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,
Thank you for jogging my sagging memory about Peter's service as 
President of SAC.  (Gerry Rattley was VP, and I served my time that year 
as some sort of flunky, probably Properties Director, schlepping the 
signs and equipment...)
I am indeed gathering notes for an obituary for the SAC newsletter and 
would welcome any additional juicy tidbits....
Also, thanks for sharing the story about his neighbor and the time 
check, or as Peter referred to it on his many recordings, "WWV's 
Greatest Hits", Volume ZZZ.....
For some of you other folks who may not have been in the club then, 
Steve did an excellent job explaining astrophotography in his segment of 
the KAET Channel Eight "SpaceProbe 8" shows in 1985....
Gene
(17250)

Steve Coe wrote:

>Hello;
>I had heard that Pete was sick and I am certainly sad to hear of his passing.  
>Pete was a very active contributor to IOTA and I am happy to say that I got a 
>chance to go out a few times and enjoy the view of an asteroid making a star 
>blink out for a moment.  I also remember us setting up near the Sunset Point 
>rest stop for a grazing occultation of a star by the Moon. I would need to 
>find my notes, but I remember at least 4 or 5 times the star winking off and 
>then on as it passed behind the mountains at the edge of the Moon.  I think 
>Gerry Rattley gave me a prime location.  Lots of fun.
>I don't have it handy, but I do think Pete was a SAC officer at some point, we 
>might have that available for an obituary.
>I do remember a funny story from Pete Manly:  he is in his backyard in Tempe 
>and it is early in the morning.  He is videoing an occultation and has the WWV 
>radio playing so that voice of the time mark will be on the tape. His neighbor 
>sticks his head out the back door and says "Do you know what the heck time it 
>is?"  At that instant the WWV voice says "At the tone the time will be 10:14 
>coordinating Universal Time".  So, yes, Pete Manly knows what time it is.
>We are, indeed, mortal; Steve Coe
>[my earlier post snipped - GL]
>  
>

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