Fred Ley

Once you get everything tuned up, there'll be no stopping you. Looking forward to seeing your results with this bad boy. Enjoy! Fred

With the upcoming Venus transit on June 6, I just wanted to point out that the four C8/Meade8 full aperture filters are still available. Thanks, Fred

The C11 filter has been sold. The 4 filters for the C8 and Meade 8 remain. -Fred

I was aware of the space program from an early age as I recall hearing about John Glenn when he went up in his Mercury capsule. That was followed by a few more Mercury mission and then the Gemini program. In 1963 we were visiting Calcutta and they had a planetarium that I wanted to go to but my dad told me me that I was to young to be allowed in. For Christmas of 1965 I received a smal spyglass telescope. I remember going up on the roof in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and looking at the stars, not knowing to look for anything specific. I may have looked at the Moon, but don't remember. In 1967 I built a Gemini capsule made by the Revell plastic model company. I still have the box that the model came in as the box cover art of the capsule is very nice. See the image below that I located on the internet, my box is in a closet with other things. By 1969 I was living in Athens and that year they started to run episodes of Star Trek on the YENED TV station. So I started wathching the program. The program got me thinking of all those exotic things out in the universe, which led to my checking out astronomy books from my school library and which led to my mom buying me my first telescope in April of 1971. And the journey continues...

If I can be of any help to you let me know. I could give them a call and get to the bottom of this issue. Fred

There ia also the Sylacauga meteorite that fell on Nivember 30, 1954. It went through the roof of the house, hit a radio and bounced acroos the room and struck a lady sleeping on the sofa. It left a big bruise as can be seen in the photograph. Here is a link to the event. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_(meteorite) Fred

WOW!!! -Fred

Great! Post the images, I would love to see your pieces. -Fred

For persons interested in manned space flight, today marks the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's three orbits around the Earth in "Friendship 7" on February 20, 1962. -Fred Info on his career can be found at... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn and... http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/glenn-j.html

Update- The solar filters for sale are still available for anyone that may be interested. Fred

Sounds like a nice book to add to one's library. Every few years it seems that comes out with a new book that covers the latest observatories and equipment in order to keep us interested folks updated. Thanks for the posting. -Fred

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Hello, I noticed, very early this morning, that "Team Astrovox" has done an upgrading to the site. That is a great move as far I am concerned and reflects positively on the continuing commitment of Astrovox to maintain the high quality of this site with periodic upgrades to the site as they warrant. Clear Skies, Fred