[AZ-Observing] Re: Sad News about Peter Manly, 1945-2007
- From: Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, SAC-Forum <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 23:11:38 -0700
Very sorry to hear about Peter.
I knew him well back in the IAPPP days. Last I knew he was writing
science fiction and doing well with it.
Jeff
At 22:04 -0700 08/02/2007, gene lucas wrote:
>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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